Marley & Me is a movie based on the book of the same name by John Grogan. The film was released in the United States and Canada on Christmas 2008 and the rest of the world in year 2009.
SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston in "Marley & Me"
John Grogan (Owen Wilson) and Jenny Grogan (Jennifer Aniston) are a happily married couple whom escape the cold Michigan to southern Florida where both of them are hired as reporters for two different newspapers. While John works as a news reporter covering mundane stories in South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Jenny works as a columnist at The Palm Beach Post.
When Jenny is hinting John that she wants to have a baby, John’s friend and colleague, Sebastien Tunney (Eric Dane) suggests to John to adopt a dog in order to take Jenny’s focus away from thinking to have a baby. John then surprises Jenny by bringing her to buy a yellow Labrador retriever and John names him Marley.
Marley is the world’s worse ever dog as he grows up — he eats furniture, answering machine, floor. When John and Jenny realizes they are able to cope with Marley, they attempt to get a baby. When Jenny becomes pregnant, she loses her baby in her first trimester and John suggests that they both go for a belated honeymoon in Ireland leaving Marley to a caretaker. When they return, Jenny discovers she is pregnant again and this time around, she delivers a healthy baby boy named Patrick. Before long, Jenny has a second child, Connor and she chooses to become a full-time mother while John gets a promotion at work earning double of what he earned previously as a full-time columnist. They also move to a larger house in a safer neighborhood called Boca Raton.
The couple welcomes a daughter, Colleen to their family when Jenny suddenly shows signs of postpartum depression even though she denies it. She even wants Marley and John out of the house. When she realizes how important Marley and John is to the family, she agrees they can stay.
When John turns 40, he realizes how mundane his job has become and accepts a job offer from The Philadephia Inquirer instead and they move into a rural farm house. Marley grows old and starts to slow down until the day John and his family has to live without Marley.
Overall, Marley & Me is a movie about the life of John Grogan and his beloved dog, Marley. Nothing’s too special about the movie except that it shows life can be mundane, dogs can be irritating, and it’s not easy raising a family. However, if we can embrace ourselves and learn to live better without giving ourselves too much expectations, life can be a lot easier.
My ratings: 7 out of 10.
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you are completely underrating the movie!!! it had and amazing and touching plot and had great acting (although i really think the movie could have done without aniston). i give it 9.9/10.
i think that the moviie is acee!!!! i completey luv it its maa fav film,,i just hate crying at the end on marley…..although i think the kids are ace especially the girl shes funny..marley is sooo funny i laugh my head off… and i duno y laurel is complainin bout jenifer cz shes the best and shes a gr8 acter soo dnt take no notice! i give it 10/10
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