Isle of Dogs

1:00pm - Saturday, Jun 14, 2025

Isle of Dogs

In this stop-motion-animated film from writer/director Wes Anderson, an outbreak of canine flu in Japan leads all dogs to be quarantined on an island. A boy (voice of Koyu Rankin) journeys there to rescue his dog Spots (Liev Schreiber), and gets help from a pack of misfit canines who have also been exiled. His quest inspires a group of dog lovers to expose a government conspiracy. The voice cast also includes Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Bob Balaban, Greta Gerwig, and Yoko Ono and features the music of Alexandre Desplat.

"Wes Anderson’s animated feature 'Isle of Dogs' might be the most lyrically disjunctive movie ever made: Nothing fits together and everything harmonizes, magically." (Vulture)

"It's gorgeous-filled with so many bits of visual whimsy and imaginative detail that it would take several viewings to fully catch them all. And it's idiosyncratic and witty and dark." (Baltimore Magazine)

"So effortlessly cinematic and inventive, it's best in show." (Richard Crouse)

Saturday, June 14
Doors 12:30 pm | Movie 1:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson, 2018 / PG / 101 mins) When, by executive decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.


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