A Dog's Perfect Christmas: Book vs. Movie
Cathryn Michon's 2026 film A Dog's Perfect Christmas adapts W. Bruce Cameron's book. Dennis Quaid, Milo Ventimiglia and Brooke Lena Johnson star in the story of a family facing a crisis over the holidays.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- W. Bruce Cameron
- Year
- 2020
- Pages
- 304Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 8 hr 9 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Mary Steenburgen
Christmas approaches with the Goss family already struggling to live comfortably together, from Ello's teenage anxieties to her widowed grandfather's grief. A medical emergency threatens the fragile routines holding the household together. When a lost puppy arrives amid the upheaval, caring for another vulnerable creature gives family members something to share beyond their worries.
- Director
- Cathryn Michon
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 1 hr 39 min
- Network
- Netflix
- Cast
- Dennis Quaid, Milo Ventimiglia, Brooke Lena Johnson, Kathleen Rose Perkins
- Genre
- drama film
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
A family emergency threatens the Goss household's Christmas, leaving a teenage girl and her grandfather trying to keep everyone together. Their basset hound Winstead has his own view of the humans and the troubles they cannot seem to solve. Amid the disruption, the family's relationships become as important as any plans for the holiday.
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