Naomi Watts grapples with grief and becomes a dog ... as she adopts his pet Great Dane. The trailer opens with Murray asking: "What's going to happen to the dog?" The trailer devolves into Watts ...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. “The Friend” opens from Bleecker Street Friday, March 28, 2025. There’s no way to play this ...

It’s easy enough, then, to understand the profound conundrum facing Iris (Naomi Watts), a writer and professor who suddenly finds herself with a 150-pound Great Dane ward after an unexpected ...

Her closest friend and mentor has died and bequeathed to her his beloved Great Dane, Apollo. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE FRIEND") NAOMI WATTS: (As Iris) I've imagined it so many times. How ...

the long-faced gentle giant of a dog that gives “The Friend” its abiding soulfulness — a black-splotched Great Dane with the drooping eyes of a silent-era clown, credited as Bing — is also ...

I once got punched in the face by a Great Dane. It was on a farm in Portarlington where I was doing summer work. The beast jumped up on its hind legs by way of an excitable greeting, only to ...

One of the finest double acts of the year has received little fanfare, and, with all due respect, the pairing of Naomi Watts and a Great Dane wasn't top of anyone's dream combo wish list. But here we ...

The Friend, which stars Naomi Watts and a Great Dane, is essentially a milder version of Rampage: the Day-Lewis Cut. The film carries itself like a bright and mischievous character study in the style ...