**SPOILERS** Losing control of his car computer executive Thomas Johnson, Matthew Modine, drives off the road hitting a tree killing himself. We don't exactly know what lead to Thomas' death but he was a the time of his accident involved in some kind of game of chicken with his partner, in the computer firm, and good friend Jeff Newman ,Eric Stoltz. Did Jeff purposely drive Thomas off the road?
We then see a number of puppies nursing and one of them turns out to be Thomas now reborn as a dog who ends up being a homeless but lovable, aren't they all, street mutt. Avoiding dog catchers cars and people Thomas ends up being befriended and taken in by Bella, Collins Willcox Paxton, a sweet and homeless bag-lady who give the mutt a name "Fluke". Since Bella considers him to be a fluke of nature with his above average intelligence in being able to play and win money,for Bella and himself,at Three Card Monty.
With Bella later passing away Fluke ends up back on the streets as a homeless dog. It's then when he runs into fellow mutt Rumbo who somehow can communicate with him telepathically. The two mutts become no only lifelong friends but even, at the end of the movie, friends from one lifetime to another.
Sweet touching and in some ways tragic movie that has Fluke trying to find his family when he was Thomas Johnson and save them from his partner in his computer firm Jeff whom he feels was not only responsible for his death but is now a threat to them. As Fluke begins to remember his past as Thomas Johnson he starts to act more human then canine trying to rejoin his widowed wife Carol, Nancy Travis, and young son Brian, Max Pomerance. Wise old Rumbo tells Fluke something that will later dawn on him when he tragically finds out the real truth about the past that the left behind; a past that Fluke in his own and unrealistic way tried to change.
Rumbo who's later shot and killed saving Fluke from being experimented with by this mad scientist prof. Santini, Federico Pacifici, and his hulking henchman Sylvester, Ron Perlman, tells Fulke just before he died that he also knows who he was in a previous life, a young Navy man, but left that in the past where it belonged hoping. Fluke would not do the same thing with his fixation on Carol and Brian as well as Jeff but to no avail. It was up to Fluke to find out the truth and in the end almost end up dead by doing it to see just how right his friend Rumbo was.
Not really as sad as you would expect it to be "Fluke" in the end realizes that his past life, and those he knew in it, should be left alone and that him trying to change things will only make things worse. Fluke also begins to see, what he was too blinded to see as Thomas Johnson, that he really wasn't the nice and understanding person that he thought that he was as Thomas. Coming back as the family pet to Carol and Brian made Fluke the odd dog out as his vicious and predatory nature took hold of him. Every time he encountered Jeff, a family friend, he would turn on him to the point where he almost killed Jeff. Sadly Fluke found out that his suspicions of Jeff being responsible for his death, and trying to take over his company by marrying Carol, were all wrong.
We then see a number of puppies nursing and one of them turns out to be Thomas now reborn as a dog who ends up being a homeless but lovable, aren't they all, street mutt. Avoiding dog catchers cars and people Thomas ends up being befriended and taken in by Bella, Collins Willcox Paxton, a sweet and homeless bag-lady who give the mutt a name "Fluke". Since Bella considers him to be a fluke of nature with his above average intelligence in being able to play and win money,for Bella and himself,at Three Card Monty.
With Bella later passing away Fluke ends up back on the streets as a homeless dog. It's then when he runs into fellow mutt Rumbo who somehow can communicate with him telepathically. The two mutts become no only lifelong friends but even, at the end of the movie, friends from one lifetime to another.
Sweet touching and in some ways tragic movie that has Fluke trying to find his family when he was Thomas Johnson and save them from his partner in his computer firm Jeff whom he feels was not only responsible for his death but is now a threat to them. As Fluke begins to remember his past as Thomas Johnson he starts to act more human then canine trying to rejoin his widowed wife Carol, Nancy Travis, and young son Brian, Max Pomerance. Wise old Rumbo tells Fluke something that will later dawn on him when he tragically finds out the real truth about the past that the left behind; a past that Fluke in his own and unrealistic way tried to change.
Rumbo who's later shot and killed saving Fluke from being experimented with by this mad scientist prof. Santini, Federico Pacifici, and his hulking henchman Sylvester, Ron Perlman, tells Fulke just before he died that he also knows who he was in a previous life, a young Navy man, but left that in the past where it belonged hoping. Fluke would not do the same thing with his fixation on Carol and Brian as well as Jeff but to no avail. It was up to Fluke to find out the truth and in the end almost end up dead by doing it to see just how right his friend Rumbo was.
Not really as sad as you would expect it to be "Fluke" in the end realizes that his past life, and those he knew in it, should be left alone and that him trying to change things will only make things worse. Fluke also begins to see, what he was too blinded to see as Thomas Johnson, that he really wasn't the nice and understanding person that he thought that he was as Thomas. Coming back as the family pet to Carol and Brian made Fluke the odd dog out as his vicious and predatory nature took hold of him. Every time he encountered Jeff, a family friend, he would turn on him to the point where he almost killed Jeff. Sadly Fluke found out that his suspicions of Jeff being responsible for his death, and trying to take over his company by marrying Carol, were all wrong.