I hated that they made us watch that in Jr high (WITHOUT reading the book first
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I had a teacher who loved the story and so for about half a week we watched it and I thought "oh nice, we get to watch a movie in class without having to read it first" I had NO IDEA what it was about other than a boy and his dog. Ah man, even the tough boys in class were crying at the end.