‘Thank you for your service,” we tell our veterans, but it’s about as meaningful a wish as “Have a nice day.” That sense that no one actually cares about them helps push veterans grappling with post-traumatic stress to the margins after their final tour of duty, and their struggles are the subject of an honest, funny, sensitive, and gritty little road-trip movie called Dog, the directorial debut of Channing Tatum.
Tatum (who co-directed the movie with Magic Mike screenwriter Reid Carolin, also directing for the first time) plays Jackson Briggs, an internally and externally scarred former Army Ranger who is working at a sandwich shop but hoping to cash in with a high-paying gig in diplomatic security. The barrier is that he got shot up a few times overseas and now has lingering brain injuries. To be cleared for duty, he needs the approval of his former commanding officer, who refuses to grant it.
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