As the snow falls on their wedding night,
newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan (OWEN WILSON and JENNIFER
ANISTON) decide to leave behind the harsh winters of
Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West
Palm Beach, Florida. They obtain jobs as journalists at
competing local newspapers, buy their first home, and begin
to make their way through the challenges of a new marriage,
new careers and, possibly, the life-changing decision to
start a family.
Unsure of his preparedness for raising children, John
confesses his fears to his friend and fellow journalist
Sebastian, who comes up with the perfect solution: John
should get Jenny a puppy. "There's nothing to it," says
Sebastian. "You walk 'em. You feed 'em, you let 'em out now
and then."
Then came Marley.
The Grogans adopt the cute, twelve pound yellow Labrador,
who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of
unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster
area. He flunks obedience school, chews off dry-wall, takes
a bite out of the sofa, overturns garbage cans, steals a
Thanksgiving turkey, consumes pillows and flowers, drinks
toilet water, and chases the UPS guy. Even a
newly-purchased, expensive necklace isn't safe from Marley's
voracious antics.
Amidst the mayhem he generates through the years, Marley
sees the Grogans through the ups and downs of family life,
through job and home changes, and most of all, through the
myriad challenges of a growing family. As John and Jenny
come to realize, Marley - "the world's worst dog" - somehow
brings out the best in them.
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