Bark!

{{other uses|Bark (disambiguation)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Bark! | image = Bark!.jpg | alt = | caption = | director = Katarzyna Adamik | producer = | writer = Heather Morgan | narrator = | starring = Lee Tergesen<br>Heather Morgan<br>Lisa Kudrow<br>Vincent D'Onofrio<br>Hank Azaria | music = | cinematography = | editing = | studio = | distributor = TVA International<ref name=DT>{{cite web|work=DVD Talk|date=November 22, 2003|first=Don|last=Houston|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/8398/bark/|title=Bark}}</ref> | released = {{Film date|2002|01|11|Sundance}}<ref name="var"/> | runtime = 100 minutes<ref name="var"/> | country = | language = English | budget = | gross = }}

'''''Bark!''''' is a 2002 film written by Heather Morgan, directed by Katarzyna Adamik (the daughter of director Agnieszka Holland) and starring Morgan, Lee Tergesen, and Lisa Kudrow. The film debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}

The "extremely low-budget" film,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/movies/film-after-friends-looking-for-a-second-act.html?pagewanted=2 After ''Friends'': Looking for a Second Act], an August 18, 2002 article from ''The New York Times''</ref> had its origins in a 90-second comedy sketch.<ref name="var">[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117916763.html ''Bark!'' Review], from ''Variety''</ref>

==Plot== The film depicts Lucy, a professional dogwalker (played by Morgan), who gradually assumes the identity of a dog. Tergesen plays Peter, her embarrassed husband, and Kudrow plays their veterinarian.

==Cast== *Lee Tergesen as Peter *Heather Morgan as Lucy *Lisa Kudrow as Darla *Vincent D'Onofrio as Malcolm *Hank Azaria as Sam *Mary Jo Deschanel as Betty *Scott Wilson as Harold *Aimee Graham as Rebecca *Wade Andrew Williams as Tom

==Release== The film was screened at several film festivals, including the Moscow International Film Festival, the Munich Film Festival, the Warsaw International Film Festival, and the Cleveland International Film Festival, but never received a theatrical release.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}

The film was eventually released on DVD in 2003 by TVA International.<ref name=DT/>

==Reception== ''Variety'', reviewing the film after its Sundance screening, said it "seems to be a throwback to the craziness-as-higher-expression-of-individuality school that was in vogue between ''The King of Hearts'' and ''Harold and Maude'', noting "Lucy's withdrawal doesn't seem to spring from anything — unless urban life's everyday rudeness and an overbearingly suburban-banal family background count — and scene by scene, ''Bark!'' builds no discernible rhythm, viewpoint or mood apart from a faint, rudderless, shaggy-joke tenor.<ref name="var"/>

==References== <references/>

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0273453}} *{{Rotten Tomatoes|bark2002}}

Category:2002 films Category:American independent films Category:2002 comedy films Category:2002 English-language films Category:2002 American films Category:Films about dogs Category:American comedy films Category:English-language comedy films