Marley & Me (2008) on Netflix
Newly married John and Jenny Grogan move from Michigan to South Florida for newspaper jobs. A colleague suggests a dog, and they pick a yellow Labrador puppy, Marley.
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Plot summary
John and Jenny Grogan marry and leave Michigan for South Florida, where each takes a reporting job at a different newspaper. Jenny lands prominent front-page assignments at The Palm Beach Post, while John writes obituaries and short news items at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. John's friend and co-worker Sebastian Tunney proposes a dog as a way to gauge whether the couple is ready to raise a family. They pick a yellow Labrador puppy, and John calls him Marley, after Bob Marley. After a year Marley weighs about 100 pounds and remains incorrigible, so they enroll him in a dog obedience program, which soon expels the unruly dog. John's editor, Arnie Klein, hands him a twice-weekly column on any subject he likes; with no idea at first, John decides Marley's misadventures could fill it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Marley & Me (2008)
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- It grossed $14.75 million on its first day of release, setting the record for the best Christmas Day box office take ever by surpassing the previous high of $10.2 million achieved by Ali in 2001; the record was broken the following year by Sherlock Holmes.
- Because the film covers 14 years in the life of the dog, 22 different yellow labradors were used to play the part of Marley.
- Dave Barry, Grogan's fellow South Florida humor columnist, makes an uncredited cameo in the film as a guest at the surprise party celebrating Grogan's 40th birthday.
