Meanwhile, Julia stakes out Torco's house since she, too, believes he framed Ace. Dan was right all along, and he is upset with the captain. It shows Torco first fending off Ace with barbed wire, but then slashing himself with it. But Dan 'convinces' Julia she was probably just dreaming, and they proceed home.ĭan's police captain brings him in to show him the surveillance tape of the capture. Ace sees her and waves, which is a trick she taught him. During their drive back home, sleepy Julia sees Ace, who has hopped into the back of a towed car. When they arrive Ace has just escaped again. But Julia eventually convinces Dan to take her to Wenatchee to see if the dog is Ace. Dan's daughter, Julia (McKillip), sees Ace on a TV news show, but her parents do not believe it is Ace, since his supposed cremated remains are just then delivered to their home by mail. Ace, while making his way back to Dan, captures a petty-thief and is lauded by the media. The veterinary technician, not wanting to have his incompetence found out, puts some other ashes from the crematory into a container and marks them as Ace's.ĭan tries to get over the grief of losing Ace by trying out other dogs, but to no success. Meanwhile Ace has trickily escaped the vet hospital, and heads home. The surveillance video is being 'cleaned up' by technicians. Dan tries to convince his captain that Ace is innocent and to stop the euthanasia, but to no avail. He also finds a piece of barbed wire, which he believes Torco used to slash himself with. Dan drives Ace to the vet hospital in Spokane, and leaves him to be put down.ĭan goes to the capture scene and sees the area is under 24-hour video surveillance. Officials demand Ace be euthanized because he's now classified as 'a biter'. And Torco does not face charges as the evidence against him is sketchy. When police see injuries to Torco's neck, they believe they are the results of Ace biting him. After a pursuit in the woods, Ace takes down Torco, out of sight of his human partner, Dan (Cain), who soon arrives. Out on a call, the police and their dogs are on the track of the thief, Torco (Dopud). The police are trying to catch a burglar whom they have nicknamed "Goliath". It's a patently misleading characterization that suggests reporters would deliberately alienate people when in fact extra politeness is necessary in order to persuade reluctant subjects to cooperate.Ace of Hearts is a 2008 English-language Canadian family drama film directed by David Mackay and starring Dean Cain, Britt McKillip, Anne Marie Loder, and Mike Dopud. In the same vein, a reporter sent to question Dan about the dog attack is absurdly rude and insensitive. It's as if he used to be smart, and she needs to remind him. We never see the dad do anything to indicate that he has any guiding philosophy, yet Julia often quotes him back to himself. No parent, especially one with the patience to work with a trained animal, could be as stubbornly obtuse as Dan when it comes to responding to his own helpful and intelligent child's pleas for attention. Most irksome is a dad more interested in his dog than in his smart and helpful daughter. Though just a kid, she uses math and other skills to perform the intelligent detective work that neither Dan nor his superiors seem capable of. The only character in Ace of Hearts smarter than Ace is Dan's dogged daughter, Julia. Dog lovers will pant over scenes that feature Ace, the brilliant star of this movie, but the scenes that dwell on his myopic police partner, Dan, bring the movie to a deadly standstill.
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