When movies are made based on literary material, results can vary. Movies like The Devil Wears Prada, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and the Harry Potter films have all served to enhance the legend of their source material in recent times. Movies based on The Nanny Diaries, Stardust and Eragon on the other hand may have indelibly tarnished the name of the books they were based on.

So it was definitely a good move to hire the director of the successful Prada movie to helm a film about a couple that moved from Michigan to South Florida, bought a dog, started a family and moved to Pennsylvania some years later. Especially because the story of that family was the subject of a book entitled Marley & Me and detailed, among other things, the family's many misadventures because of their willful Labrador -- the Marley from the book's (and movie's) title.

The way the story unfolds, John (Owen Wilson) and Jennifer (Jennifer Aniston) Grogan move to South Florida soon after they are married and pursue individual careers as reporters with different newspapers. While Jennifer's career begins to flourish right away, John is always hanging on to the tales of co-worker Sebastian's (Eric Dane from television's Grey's Anatomy) adventures in far off lands while
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