After the box-office and critical successes of An American Tail and The Land Before Time, animators Don Bluth, Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy were intent on making a movie free of outside influences. They set up shop in Ireland and, without Hollywood financing, made All Dogs Go to Heaven, a critical and box-office disappointment that opened the same day as Disney’s The Little Mermaid. But time and home video have been good to this darkly comic tale of canine con man Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds, for whom the character was written); loyal sidekick Itchy (Reynolds buddy Dom DeLuise); and the orphan girl they rescue, Anne-Marie (Judith Barsi).
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