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* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: The book's version of CJ saw her try to commit suicide, sustain enough kidney damage that she has to go on permanent dialysis treatment, become infertile, and give up her dreams of becoming an actress in favour of becoming a psychologist, none of which happens to her film counterpart.
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* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:At the end of the film version of ''A Dog's Journey'', Ethan is dead, and Max dies not long after him, with the heavy implication that the latter is no longer reincarnating, but both are seen reuniting happily in the afterlife]].
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* BetterWithNonHumanCompany: Downplayed with Maya. She doesn't ''hate'' people, but she's extremely shy and doesn't have any friends for most of college. However, she and her dog Tino are like two peas in a pod.
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* NotGoodWithPeople: Downplayed with Maya. She doesn't ''hate'' people, but she's extremely shy and doesn't have any friends for most of college. However, she and her dog Tino are like two peas in a pod. (TruthInTelevision; as many a real-life introvert can attest, dogs can be ''significantly'' easier to hang out with than people.)
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* TimeShiftedActor:
** Ethan Montgomery is portrayed by Creator/BryceGheisar as an eight-year-old, while his teenage self is portrayed by Creator/KJApa and his older self is portrayed by Creator/DennisQuaid.
** Hannah is portrayed by Britt Robertson as a teenager and the late Creator/PeggyLipton as an adult.
** Ethan Montgomery is portrayed by Creator/BryceGheisar as an eight-year-old, while his teenage self is portrayed by Creator/KJApa and his older self is portrayed by Creator/DennisQuaid.
** Hannah is portrayed by Britt Robertson as a teenager and the late Creator/PeggyLipton as an adult.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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'''Previews:''' [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=1jLOOCADTGs Trailer]]
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* CanineConfusion: Maya gives Tino the corgi a lot of human food, including ice cream and pizza. The only bad thing that happens to him is that he gains weight from it even though he should've been sick or dead from all that.
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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: CJ and her childhood friend Trent, who is Asian.
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* GoOutWithASmile: Tino has some semblance of this expression as he passes away.
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** Nearly all incarnations of Bailey in the sequel pick up on someone who's no good--Buddy dislikes Gloria, Molly dislikes Gloria and Sean, and Max hates Barry--he even gets ''his'' dog to hate him!
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** In the second film, Sean angrily declares "I'm going to kill that dog!" after Molly bites him while trying to defend CJ. A few minutes later, he runs CJ off the road, indeed killing poor Molly.
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** In the second film, Sean Shane angrily declares "I'm going to kill that dog!" after Molly bites him while trying to defend CJ. A few minutes later, he runs CJ off the road, indeed killing poor Molly.
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* KarmaHoudini: Sean gets CJ busted at a drug party, attacks her, and runs her off the road, killing Molly, and simply drives off and is presumably never caught.
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* KarmaHoudini: Sean Shane gets CJ busted at a drug party, attacks her, and runs her off the road, killing Molly, and simply drives off and is presumably never caught.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Sean when CJ and Trent are teenagers, Liesl and Barry when they're adults. True to form, they're [[{{Jerkass}} jerkassess]]--Sean gets CJ arrested and almost kills her, Barry. . .[[DesignatedVillain actually doesn't do anything wrong]] except not want another dog around and make a few snide comments about CJ's non-existent musical career, and Liesl dumps Trent after he's diagnosed with cancer.
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* RomanticFalseLead: Sean Shane when CJ and Trent are teenagers, Liesl and Barry when they're adults. True to form, they're [[{{Jerkass}} jerkassess]]--Sean jerkassess]]--Shane gets CJ arrested and almost kills her, Barry. . .[[DesignatedVillain actually doesn't do anything wrong]] except not want another dog around and make a few snide comments about CJ's non-existent musical career, and Liesl dumps Trent after he's diagnosed with cancer.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Bailey's first life as a stray. He's scooped up and put into an animal control van. The scene fades out, then fades back into his next life as Bailey. Younger viewers might easily fail to realize that that the stray was taken to a shelter and eventually euthanized, as shown in the book.
** Tino says "It wasn't long before we slept together" in reference to Roxy. He means ''literally'' sleeping together.
** Bailey's first life as a stray. He's scooped up and put into an animal control van. The scene fades out, then fades back into his next life as Bailey. Younger viewers might easily fail to realize that that the stray was taken to a shelter and eventually euthanized, as shown in the book.
** Tino says "It wasn't long before we slept together" in reference to Roxy. He means ''literally'' sleeping together.
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** Bailey's first life as a stray. He's scooped upGettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and put into an animal control van. The scene fades out, then fades back into his next life as Bailey. Younger viewers might easily fail to realize that that the stray was taken to a shelter and eventually euthanized, as shown persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the book.
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** Bailey's first life as a stray. He's scooped up
** Tino says "It wasn't long before we slept together" in reference
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* CrotchGlanceSexCheck: After Bailey reincarnates into a German Shepherd, he comments that "other things were missing" and looks at his underside to find out he's a female, much to his shock.
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The film was directed by Creator/LasseHallstrom, and starred Creator/DennisQuaid as Ethan and the voice of Creator/JoshGad as the main character (referred to as "Bailey" here, as that's the name he has the longest and identifies most as).
A sequel called ''A Dog's Journey'' (the same name as the novel) premiered in May 2019.
A sequel called ''A Dog's Journey'' (the same name as the novel) premiered in May 2019.
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The film was directed by Creator/LasseHallstrom, and starred Creator/DennisQuaid as Ethan and the voice of Creator/JoshGad as the voice of the main character (referred (for the sake of clarity, he's referred to as "Bailey" here, as that's the name he has the longest and identifies most as).
A sequel called ''A Dog's Journey'' (the same name as the novel) premiered in May2019.2019 with Quaid and Gad reprising their roles. As in the novel, ''A Dog's Journey'' focuses on Bailey finding a new purpose: taking care of Ethan's granddaughter CJ (Kathryn Prescott).
A sequel called ''A Dog's Journey'' (the same name as the novel) premiered in May
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* TestesTest: Both female incarnations of Bailey look themselves over and realize that they're female when notice that "something's missing".
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* TestesTest: Both female incarnations of Bailey look themselves over and realize that they're female when they notice that "something's missing".
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* CompositeCharacter: The film shortens Ellie's life and mixes her two handlers together. Jakob is given a RaceLift from white to Latino and renamed "Carlos". Maya in the book was latina. Maya in the film is black and is a completely different character.
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* CompositeCharacter: The film shortens Ellie's life and mixes her two handlers together. Jakob is given a RaceLift from white to Latino and renamed "Carlos". Maya in the book was latina.Latina. Maya in the film is black and is a completely different character.
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** As often happens with the cycle of abuse, Gloria's mother is mentioned as even being ''worse'' then she was, beating Gloria with gardening tools, leaving her daughter alone for long periods of time when she was a child, and breaking her arm at the age of ''eight.''
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** Molly in the book ''A Dog's Journey'' is a poodle mix. In the movie, she's a beagle.
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** Molly in the book ''A Dog's Journey'' is a poodle mix. In the movie, she's a beagle. Max is a Chihuahua-Yorkie mix in the book, but he's a straight-up Yorkie in the movie.
** In the second book, CJ spends some time being homeless in California after running away from Gloria. This event is simply changed to [[spoiler: the car accident which kills Molly.]] His [[spoiler: last life]] as Toby the second is also completely absent.
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* CompositeCharacter: The film shortens Ellie's life and mixes her two handlers together. Jakob is given a RaceLift from white to latino Latino and renamed "Carlos". Maya in the book was latina. Maya in the film is black and is a completely different character.
* FreudianExcuse: Gloria's behavior can be chalked up to her own abusive childhood, and in particular, her hatred of dogs is because her own mother had a fat little lap dog who would just sit there and yap all day acting smug while Gloria was forced to do chores all day long.
** [[spoiler: Gloria]] in the books gets to live to a ripe old age, implied to be in her nineties, despite abusing her daughter her entire life. The only real comeuppance she receives is getting Alzheimer's, but even then it's hardly a punishment considering she then can't even remember she's ever done anything wrong, and remains unrepentant about her abuse until her dying day.
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** in the film the gun-wielding child abductor that Carlos/Jacob and Ellie pursue is a divorced father who took his kid. In the book he is implied to be a pedophile and a serial killer based on a line about the area their searching being where he dumped the last body.
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** The A Dog's Journey book involves CJ [[spoiler: trying to commit suicide at age twenty-five, permanently damaging her kidneys, and becoming infertile as a result. She also gives up on her dream to be an actress, instead becoming a psychologist. Her mother Gloria also remains unrepentant about her abuse towards CJ her entire life, even accusing her of "stealing her money" at the end of her life despite CJ having supported her for the past fifteen years.]] The movie outright removes a lot of these elements or changes them, including softening Gloria's character and eventually making her a likable person who tries to reconnect with CJ.
** The A Dog's Journey book involves CJ [[spoiler: trying to commit suicide at age twenty-five, permanently damaging her kidneys, and becoming infertile as a result. She also gives up on her dream to be an actress, instead becoming a psychologist. Her mother Gloria also remains unrepentant about her abuse towards CJ her entire life, even accusing her of "stealing her money" at the end of her life despite CJ having supported her for the past fifteen years.]] The movie outright removes a lot of these elements or changes them, including softening Gloria's character and eventually making her a likable person who tries to reconnect with CJ.
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* OutOfCharacterMoment: To the owner of the store that Big Dog lives in, Big Dog is usually a mopey dog, not getting up much. But once he sees CJ, he's happy and gets up to greet her. The owner of the store remarks that Big Dog usually never gets up for anything else.
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* OutOfCharacterMoment: To the owner of the store that Big Dog lives in, Big Dog is usually a mopey calm, relaxed dog, not getting up much. But once he sees CJ, he's happy and gets up to greet her. The owner of the store remarks that Big Dog usually never gets up for anything else.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Ethan]] is still alive at the end of the first film.
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