We can watch all manner of gruesome things happen to our fellow human beings in movies, but when it comes to our canine friends, anything beyond a vigorous ear scratch is too much to handle. In fact, Anne Hathaway believes that any movie that kills a dog should automatically be rated R. She might be onto something.
Anne Hathaway on Dogs
While chatting with Complex during the press tour for The End of Oak Street (which includes a dog named Starbuck), Hathaway shared her stance on dog violence in movies.
“I feel like movies that kill dogs should automatically be rated R,” Hathaway said. “Doesn’t matter if anybody curses, doesn’t matter if there’s violence, if a dog dies, R-rated… I think everybody’s so traumatized by ‘John Wick,’ because I’ve been seeing those [comments for our movie] like, ‘They better not kill the dog.’ I’m like, ‘Which movies are out there killing dogs that everybody’s scared that we’re just casually doing it in movies now?’“
Naturally, some are worried about Starbuck in The End of Oak Street, but Hathaway said, “Somebody was like, ‘Can you just let the audiences know that, like, it’s all gonna be OK?’ We break rules in this movie, that might not be one of them. Don’t worry.“
The End of Oak Street
Hathaway stars alongside Ewan McGregor in The End of Oak Street, a sci-fi thriller written and directed by David Robert Mitchell (It Follows). The description reads: “After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.”
The film is now playing in theaters, and our own Chris Bumbray loved it, even calling it the best dinosaur movie since the original Jurassic Park.
“While it would be only natural to be sick of dinosaurs on the big screen in the wake of too many Jurassic World films, Mitchell’s film does something unique — it makes them feel truly dangerous again,” Bumbray wrote. “Pushing its PG-13 rating, once the Platt family finds themselves in a world occupied by dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, they watch their neighbours being picked off in gruesome ways by the carnivorous beasts. This is probably what reminded me the most of Amblin films, in that they weren’t afraid to push the limits of how scary a family film could be while still working for a broad audience.” You can check out the rest of his review right here.
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