The column proves popular with readers and eventually helps double the paper's circulation. Arnie loves it, and Marley's continual wreaking havoc on the household provides John a wealth of material. Initially stumped for ideas, John realizes that Marley's misadventures might be the perfect topic for his first column. When they tried to take Marley to get neutered, he tried to escape the car onto a busy road, almost getting him roadkilled.Įditor Arnie Klein offers John a twice-weekly column writing anything he likes. Unfortunately, Marley refuses to obey commands and when she blows her whistle, he tackles her and humps her leg, prompting her to kick him out of her class. After a year, he grows into a big dog and soon proves to be incorrigible, forcing John and Jenny to enroll him in a dog obedience program run by a woman named Ms.
They choose a yellow Labrador retriever puppy that John names Marley (after Bob Marley). When John senses Jenny is contemplating motherhood, his friend and co-worker, Sebastian Tunney, suggests adopting a dog to test their readiness to raise a family. At The Palm Beach Post, Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments, while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, John finds himself writing obituaries and mundane two-paragraph news articles. Newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to South Florida, each landing reporter jobs at competing newspapers.
The film was followed by a 2011 direct-to-video prequel, Marley & Me: The Puppy Years. Marley & Me was released in the United States and Canada on December 25, 2008, and set a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever with $14.75 million in ticket sales.
The film stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as the owners of Marley, a Labrador retriever. Marley & Me is a 2008 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel from a screenplay by Scott Frank and Don Roos, based on the 2005 memoir of the same name by John Grogan.
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