Fluke seems like a light-hearted family movie but it certainly is not, Fluke delves deep into some fairly deep life questions. The film opens with a neglectful Father and Husband named Thomas who is killed in a car accident and is re-incarnated as a Dog to put right all of the wrongs he has done in his life. Along the way he makes a new friend called "Rumbo" voiced by Samuel L. Jackson who was also re-incarnated as a Dog and he helps him uncover what really happened on the night of Tom's death, which also leads him to go on a search for the wife and son he left behind. At first we are led to believe that Thomas lived a good life and was kind to his friends and family. Fluke gradually regains full memory of his past life and the more he uncovers the more he realises that he wasn't the kind and caring man we thought he was. Ultimately he comes to the reasoning that it is best for him to leave his family behind forever as him trying to change things will only make it worse and he will just get in the way of their lives.In essence, the ideas and themes this film delves into are really thought provoking. The musical score really helps to get you emotionally involved in the film and the most provocative idea comes at the very end of the film. Fluke is definitely a hidden gem and a very impressive attempt at a deep emotional drama from Italian director Carlo Carlei.

I watched "Fluke" last night on Amazon Prime Video. By the time I finished it, I was bursting so hard into tears. Even the original trailer made me cry.This is not a bad movie, by any stretch of the imagination. It's one of the best movies I have ever seen involving a dog, and I've seen lots of films about dogs. A man gets killed in a car wreck, comes back to life as the titular character, then reunites with the family he had when he was human. It's simply a wonderful premise handled beautifully.The obstacles Fluke has to go through are not only heart-stopping, but they are also gut-wrenching. There were times in some parts of this film where I was actually tearing up. The movie literally ripped my heart out of my chest and put it in front of my face.Fluke does it in his best power to reconnect with his family, and he succeeds by sadly having to leave them near the end. That, right there, is when I lost it the second the closing credits appeared.This is not the first time I've cried at "Fluke." The same thing happened to me when I rented it from a video store when I was younger. The instant I watched it, it had the same affect on me like it did years before as it does now."Fluke" is one of the best films in Hollywood history. Its writing is fantastic, it has endearing characters and scenes that will make you cry for hours. I highly recommend it, but for people with extremely sensitive hearts, like me, I strongly advise you not to watch it.I don't think I could watch this movie without shedding a tear ever again.

According to the Vedic literature of India, people are not always reincarnated as human beings. Depending on their karma, some are promoted to higher forms beyond our present experience and others are degraded to lower species. Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita: "When one dies in the mode of ignorance, he takes birth in the animal kingdom." Dramatizing this point of ancient doctrine, Fluke is about a man who is killed in an auto accident and returns as a dog to protect his wife and young son and to learn some important lessons. Based on a novel by James Herbert, a British writer known for his work in the horror genre, the film is directed by Carlo Carlei, an Italian director whose first feature, The Flight of the Innocents received considerable praise.In Fluke, Thomas Johnson (Matthew Modine) and Jeff Newman (Eric Stolz) are business partners who have had a falling out. After Newman takes off after an argument, Johnson chases after him in his car but is run off the highway by an oncoming truck and has a fatal accident. The film then moves to an urban alley where an older dog is nursing her newborn pups until she is hauled away by animal control officers and taken to the pound. Left to fend for himself, the small pup hooks up with Bella (Collin Wilcox Paxton), a homeless woman who names him "Fluke" because he is always able to figure out where the stone is in a shell game that brings in some money for the unlikely pair.Shot in cuts with both real and animatronic dogs, Fluke, now a fully-grown Golden Retriever, meets a street-wise St. Bernard named Rumbo who communicates telepathically with him in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson and teaches him the ways of the world. After some misadventures in an auto junkyard and an escape from a cosmetic research laboratory that experiments with animals, Fluke remembers the family he left behind when he was a man and manages to find his way back to his former wife Carol (Nancy Travis) and son Brian (Max Pomeranc) in the town of Hopewell. Realizing that when he was a man, he never had enough time to be with his son, Fluke makes up for his past failures and the scenes showing him playing with Brian are quite moving.Fluke decides that his mission is to protect his wife from Newman, his old business partner, whom he thinks is out to do her harm. While the animals' acting ability appear to be mystifying, in reality they were very well trained to respond to verbal and physical commands and were rewarded with food, never mistreated. Max Pomeranc, the adorable chess player from Searching for Bobby Fischer, turns in an outstanding performance as young Brian Johnson but unfortunately it is wasted in a film that was undone by dismal reviews from film critics, who called it "morbid", "bizarre", and "a booby trap for fuzzy-animal lovers and kids", all the things that it is not.The same critics also thought the idea of reincarnation might be too "deep" for children and the film consequently bombed at the box office, an occurrence that many think caused Pomeranc to abandon a promising film career. While not overlooking its many clichéd moments, Fluke deserved a better fate. It is a heart warming story that may just encourage children to think about some things they will never hear about in church or in school.

You gotta love this movie if you love dogs. I have a golden retriever, and the stuff this dog does in the movie reminds me of my dog.1. In the junkyard, when he dials the phone, and his wife answers, and FLUKE licks the receiver.2. Fluke gets out of the laundry room, and goes upstairs and see's his kid with the covers off, he grabs the covers with his mouth and covers him up.3. Fluke goes into his wife's bedroom, stares at her, she's still sleeping on her side of the bed, when she wakes up and turns over, Fluke is laying right by her.GREAT