Red Dog: True Blue

Plots: An iconic Australian story of family, friendship and adventure, between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend. A father takes his two young sons to see Red Dog. After the movie he describes to his oldest son how Red Dog is based on the story of a dog he had as a boy – Blue. From this we see the period in the man’s childhood when Blue was his dog, their trials and tribulations living on a farm in a remote part of Western Australia. Michael Carter tells his sons Nicholas and Theo that the part-Dingo dog who starred in the movie Red Dog he took them to is based on the life of his own dog, Blue. That pup was his comfort and companion when pre-teen fatherless ‘Mick’ was separated from his lush mother to be raised on the huge Western Australian cattle farm of his imposing grandpa. They also befriended the -partly Aboriginal- staff and got in and out of lots of trouble, never incurring worse then a well-deserved belting. The hiring of a governess sounds horrible, but foxy Betty Marble is every farm man and boy’s wet dream. Mick only decides on a fugue when told his mother wants him back, only to be sent to boarding school. Just then, a bush fire threatens all.