All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) on Netflix
G19891h 24mAnimationComedyDrama
Charlie B. Barkin runs a casino riverboat with Carface Carruthers, who has him killed. Charlie slips out of Heaven back to Earth and meets Anne-Marie, an orphan who can talk to animals.
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Plot summary
Charlie B. Barkin runs a casino riverboat in 1939 New Orleans with his partner, Carface Carruthers. When Carface has him killed rather than share the profits, Charlie arrives in Heaven by default: all dogs go to Heaven. Annabelle, the whippet angel who greets him, tells him dogs are entitled to paradise. Charlie steals the pocket watch that holds his life and winds it back, which returns him to Earth but bars him from Heaven forever. There his friend Itchy Itchiford is waiting, and the two plan a rival operation to get even with Carface, whose winnings come from a kidnapped orphan, Anne-Marie, who can talk to animals and pick race winners at the track.
Cast
- Daryl Gilleyas Dog Caster (voice)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
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- Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise had already appeared in five films together and asked to record their parts in the studio together, where American animation more commonly has actors record solo. Bluth agreed and let them ad-lib extensively, saying "their ad-libs were often better than the original script".
- Bluth recalled that the animation team were too upset to work on scenes involving Anne-Marie for two weeks after Barsi's death, because animating them required listening to the cassette recordings they had of her voice.
- Don Bluth owned a private 35 mm print with the excised scenes and planned to push Goldcrest for a director's cut, but the print was eventually stolen from his locked storage room, diminishing hopes of that version reaching home media.
- The film became a sleeper hit thanks to home video: a strong promotional campaign helped it become one of the top-selling VHS releases of all time, selling over 3 million copies in its first month.
- An erroneous rumor spread on the internet in the 2000s claiming Reynolds broke down crying while recording his final scene involving Barsi's character, despite evidence that he would have finished recording before her death. Bluth later denied the rumor himself.
- The film was Barsi's final film role before her murder in 1988, and the end credits song "Love Survives" was dedicated in her memory.
