Firehouse Dog is a wholesome throwback to a time before computer animators made animals talk and penguins hogged the glory. Well, not entirely wholesome. The frisky title critter is guilty of loud ...

Boy meets dog, bonds with dad and foils a dangerous arsonist in "Firehouse Dog," a likable but ungainly mutt of a movie in which a very smart canine unexpectedly becomes fireman's best friend.

The result is a modestly entertaining firehouse movie, family fare with an after-school-special flavor. Last seen in "Bridge to Terabithia," Josh Hutcherson stars as Shane, the 12-year-old son of ...

His pampered life comes to sudden end, however, when he falls out of a plane and lands in the care of brooding preteen Shane Fahey (Josh Hutcherson) and his father (Bruce Greenwood), the captain ...

Reaaaaaallly could’ve lived without the shot of the dog doing his “business” in a pot of stew. And breaking wind. Yeah, dogs break wind, even Irish terriers. We get it. No need to… ...

Little dog lost Rexxx lands in an anonymous big city where he's just another stray on the streets. Adopted by a resistant teenage kid (Josh Hutcherson) with attitude problems, he becomes both ...

Firehouse Dog: Comedy. Starring Josh Hutcherson, Bruce Greenwood and Bill Nunn. Directed by Todd Holland. (PG. 111 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) For a few minutes at least, "Firehouse Dog" looks ...

If you go to the movies a lot, you acquire all kinds of unexpected knowledge, much of which you rarely get a chance to drop into everyday conversation. But “Firehouse Dog” provides me with an ...

Firehouse Dog. The appeal here doesn't reach much beyond the canine set and K-9 grades. ... Shane Fahey: Josh Hutcherson Connor Fahey: Bruce Greenwood Joe Musto: Bill Nunn ...

It’s clearly a bad sign when you are about an hour into a movie and you plead with your wife to go on the Internet and find out exactly how long movie lasts. It’s not much better when she ...

"Firehouse Dog" (PG) Runs 1 hour, 51 minutes. No one is a bigger sucker for movies about cute doggies than The Family Filmgoer, but this story of a lonely 12-year-old boy and the dog who becomes ...