Watchers

Montana woods. Dawn. A dropped leash. A boy adopts a golden retriever, unaware the dog is a fugitive bioweapon with near-human intelligence. A second experiment escapes the same lab, hunting the first with lethal precision. Dean Koontz adaptation is less concerned with terror than interspecies buddy-movie vibes.

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Watchers was released in 1988 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 91 minutes.