Made in 1978, this documentary about obsessed pet owners and the infrastructure that caters to them, is filmed as though it was coming from a fiction film. Houses look like kitchy film sets, people act like odder versions of real people— but it IS all real. If you haven’t seen an Errol Morris documentary yet, you are in for a treat.
Here is the blurb on Netflix:
Iconoclastic indie documentarian Errol Morris trains his lens on obsessive pet owners and the zeitgeist that supports them, including pet cemetery owners and embalmers. Pet owners talk quite candidly about their deep, deep affection for their dear, departed pets and the challenges they must face dealing with feelings of bereavement. It’s Morris (who brought us The Thin Blue Line and Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) at his most entertaining.
