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Channing Tatum road trips with a canine companion in ‘Dog’
By Katie Walsh
Tribune News Service
T
he underdog is a good po-
sition for Channing Tatum.
Despite being one of the most
beloved himbos of Hollywood,
thanks to his affable screen
presence, up-for-anything at-
titude and, obviously, his good
looks, it still feels like we, as
a population, underestimate
Tatum a bit, especially as he
makes his directorial debut
with “Dog.”
Tatum shares the director’s
chair with frequent producing
partner and “Magic Mike” and
“Magic Mike XXL” writer Reid
Carolin, who is also making
his directorial debut. Carolin
penned the script with Brett
Rodriguez, about a former
Army Ranger, Jackson Briggs
(Tatum), who is tasked with de-
livering another veteran to the
funeral of an Army buddy who
has died in a car accident. The
vet in question happens to be
Lulu, a Purple Heart-decorated
combat dog, a Belgian Malinois
whose handler was Jackson’s
pal Riley. Like Jackson, she’s
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Channing Tatum and Lulu the Belgian Malinois star in “Dog.”
riddled with bullet scars, emo-
tional triggers and the resid-
ual effects of war trauma, and
she’s no longer a useful asset
to the Army. Jackson agrees to
drive “dog” (as he refers to her)
from Washington to Arizona in
hopes of receiving a recom-
mendation for a private secu-
rity contractor gig, despite the
lingering effects of a traumatic
brain injury.
Tatum, Carolin and Rodri-
guez have been collaborating,
and grappling with the effects
of war, since Kimberly Peirce’s
2008 film “Stop-Loss,” in which
Tatum co-starred, while Caro-
lin produced and Rodriguez
served as a military consultant.
The trio also produced the
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‘DOG’
“Dog,” starring Tatum
Channing and the canine
Lulu, is available only in
theaters. The fi lm opened
Feb. 18, 2022.
2017 HBO documentary “War
Dog: A Soldier’s Best Friend,”
and so “Dog” feels like a natural
culmination for this creative
partnership. The amount of
time that this project has been
marinating, plus the informed
understanding of PTSD, brain
injuries and the role of the
combat dog make for a film
that effortlessly conveys these
complex issues.
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