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** Whereas Herbert novels [[SlidingScaleOfCynicismVsIdealism acknowledge a prevalence of goodness]], they usually feature some extreme of destruction or depravity. While Fluke contends with displacement, hunger and grief, he doesn't have to deal with any [[Literature/TheRats mutant rats]] or [[Literature/TheFog chemically/]][[Literature/TheDark spectrally]] induced [[HatePlague mass homicide]].
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** Whereas Herbert novels [[SlidingScaleOfCynicismVsIdealism acknowledge a prevalence of goodness]], they usually feature some extreme of destruction or depravity. While Fluke contends with displacement, hunger and grief, he doesn't have to deal with any [[Literature/TheRats mutant rats]] or [[Literature/TheFog [[Literature/TheFog1975 chemically/]][[Literature/TheDark spectrally]] induced [[HatePlague mass homicide]].
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** Whereas Herbert novels [[SlidingScaleOfCynicismVsIdealism acknowledge a prevalence of goodness]], they usually feature some extreme of destruction or depravity. While Fluke contends with displacement, hunger and grief, he doesn't have to deal with any [[Literature/TheRats mutant rats]] or [[Literature/TheFog chemically/]][[Literature/TheDark spectrally]] induced [[HatePlague mass homicide]].
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* LighterAndSofter: One of the few James Herbert's works that isn't a bleak horror story.
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When Fluke tries explaining to Rumbo that he was a human in a past life, Rumbo sarcastically responds, "Yeah, and I was [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]]."
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When Fluke tries explaining to Rumbo that he was a human in a past life, Rumbo sarcastically responds, "Yeah, and I was [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]].Literature/SnowWhite."
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* CompositeCharacter: The film's version of Bella reflects elements of several characters from the [[Literature/{{Fluke}} book]]; a jolly middle-aged woman who feeds Fluke, a scrapyard worker who nurtures the dog's knack for finding hidden food, and an elderly homeless man to whom Fluke is eventually revealed to be telling his story.
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* CompositeCharacter: The film's version of Bella reflects elements of several characters from the [[Literature/{{Fluke}} book]]; book]]: a jolly middle-aged woman who feeds Fluke, Fluke; a scrapyard worker who nurtures the dog's knack for finding hidden food, and an elderly homeless man to whom Fluke is eventually revealed to be telling his story.
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* CompositeCharacter: The film's version of Bella reflects elements of several characters from the [[Literature/{{Fluke}} book]]; a jolly middle-aged woman who feeds Fluke, a scrapyard worker who nurtures the dog's knack for finding hidden food, and an elderly homeless man to whom Fluke is eventually revealed to be telling his story.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After causing Jeff's car crash, Fluke fully regains his memories as Tom, revealing that Jeff wasn’t responsible for Tom’s death- ''Tom'' was. His reckless choice to drive on the wrong side of the road just to continue a petty argument with Jeff forced him to swerve to avoid an oncoming truck, leading to the crash that killed him.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After causing Jeff's car crash, Fluke fully regains his memories as Tom, revealing that of the night of Tom’s crash, revealing Jeff wasn’t responsible for Tom’s death- ''Tom'' his death as he’d assumed-''Tom'' was. His reckless choice to drive Tom, recklessly driving on the wrong side of the road just to continue a petty argument with Jeff forced him (who was in fact trying to swerve ''stop'' him), swerved to avoid an oncoming truck, leading to causing the crash that killed him.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After causing Jeff's car crash, Fluke fully regains his memories as Tom, revealing that Jeff had nothing to do with his death at all-it was an accident caused by his own careless driving.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After causing Jeff's car crash, Fluke fully regains his memories as Tom, revealing that Jeff had nothing wasn’t responsible for Tom’s death- ''Tom'' was. His reckless choice to do drive on the wrong side of the road just to continue a petty argument with his death at all-it was Jeff forced him to swerve to avoid an accident caused by his own careless driving.oncoming truck, leading to the crash that killed him.]]
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** A bigger one for him is Jeff, whom Fluke believes caused him to die in the first place, and he attacks Jeff twice as a dog. But he lets the grudge go once he realizes that it was he himself, not Jeff, who was at fault.
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** A bigger one for him is Jeff, whom Fluke believes caused him to die in the first place, and he attacks Jeff twice as a dog. But he lets the grudge go once he realizes that it was he himself, ''he,'' not Jeff, who was at fault.responsible.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Said word for word when [[spoiler: Fluke remembers what really happened on the night of his accident.]]
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* ItsAllMyFault: Said nearly word for word when [[spoiler: Fluke fully remembers what really happened on the night of his accident.]]
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* JerkAss: Jeff, at first. Turns out [[spoiler: Tom was the real JerkAss who ignored his family, worked days and nights and refused to develop Jeff's brake system.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After causing Jeff's car crash, Fluke regains his memories as Tom and realizes that Jeff didn't have anything to do with his accident other than his own carelessness.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: After causing Jeff's car crash, Fluke fully regains his memories as Tom and realizes Tom, revealing that Jeff didn't have anything had nothing to do with his death at all-it was an accident other than caused by his own carelessness.careless driving.]]
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* AdaptationDeviation: American-set version of Creator/JamesHerbert novel (which took place in London and southern Britain).
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* AdaptationDeviation: American-set version of Creator/JamesHerbert novel (which took place in London and southern Britain). Also, he was [[AdaptationNameChange Nigel Clairemount Nettle, father of Gillian]] in the book, Thomas P Johnson, father of Brian in the film.
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* RecurringCharacter: For more adventures of Rumbo the squirrel, read James Herbert's novel ''[[Literature/TheMagicCottage The Magic Cottage]]''.
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* DeathByAdaptation: Ill-fated homeless Bella had a home and a grown-up son in the original book.
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A Boy And His X is when they form a bond with the "X" that "changes them forever, usually starting them down the path to adulthood."
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** A minor one for Fluke, but he doesn't like it when a man deliberately steps on Rumbo's tail. So much so that he ends up biting the man on the leg in return.
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** A minor one for Fluke, but he doesn't like it when a man deliberately steps on Rumbo's tail. So much so that he ends up biting the man on the leg in return.
** A bigger one for him is Jeff, whom Fluke believes caused him to die in the first place, and he attacks Jeff twice as a dog. But he lets the grudge go once he realizes that it was he himself, not Jeff, who was at fault.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Rumbo, who [[spoiler: rescues Fluke and other animals from animal experiments at a cosmetics company. TearJerker It doesn't end well for him.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Rumbo, who [[spoiler: rescues Fluke and other animals from animal experiments at a cosmetics company. TearJerker [[TearJerker It doesn't end well for him.him]].]]
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When Fluke tries explaining to Rumbo that he was a human in a past life, Rumbo sarcastically responds, "Yeah, and I was [[Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]]."
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* PastLifeMemories: Fluke gradually regains memory of his human life, which leads him to go on a search for the wife and son he left behind.
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Fluke is a 1995 film about a dog named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Fluke]], who for most of his life remembers brief flashes of his other life, leading him to believe that in his past life he was actually a human named Tom with a family and a job. Upon finding his widowed wife and son, his memory intensifies as well as his suspicions, especially against his former business partner Jeff whom he believes caused his human death.
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* HeyItsThatVoice:
** Rumbo is voiced by ''[[Creator/SamuelLJackson Samuel L. Motherfuckin' Jackson]]''.
** Fluke and Tom are played by [[Film/FullMetalJacket Joker]].
** Rumbo is voiced by ''[[Creator/SamuelLJackson Samuel L. Motherfuckin' Jackson]]''.
** Fluke and Tom are played by [[Film/FullMetalJacket Joker]].
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* BeNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: Fluke leaves the family so they can be happy after helping Carol find Brian.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Rumbo, who [[spoiler: rescues Fluke and other animals from animal experiments at a cosmetics company. [[TearJerker It doesn't end well for him.]]
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* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: Fluke leaves the family so they can be happy after helping Carol find Brian.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Rumbo, who [[spoiler: rescues Fluke and other animals from animal experiments at a cosmetics company. [[TearJerker It doesn't end well for him]].]]
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* BeNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: Fluke leaves the family so they can be happy after helping Carol find Brian.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Rumbo, who [[spoiler: rescues Fluke and other animals from animal experiments at a cosmetics company. [[TearJerker It doesn't end well forhim]].him.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: After helping Carol find Brian, he shows Carol who he really is and leaves them so can they be happy. On the bright side however, he meets up with Rumbo who is reincarnated as a squirrel.]]
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** Rumbo is voiced by ''[[Creator/SamuelLJackson Samuel L. Motherfuckin' Jackson]]''.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Rumbo is voiced by ''[[SamuelLJackson Samuel L. Motherfuckin' Jackson]]''.
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* FridgeHorror: According to the movie, everyone can reincarnate into someone else, particularly different species. Also, that fly you killed yesterday? Someone's reincarnated grandfather.
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** [[spoiler: Rumbo was once a sailor and Bert's brother (the man who feeds him and Fluke.)]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Might be a part of why it failed at box office. It only looks like a kid's movie.
** I watched it as a kid (okay, preteen) and enjoyed it. But then again, I was reading books like Snowbound and The Evangeline in first grade.
** I watched it as a kid (okay, preteen) and enjoyed it. But then again, I was reading books like Snowbound and The Evangeline in first grade.
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* RuleNumberOne: Rumbo states various rules, all numbered one, throughout the film.
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