Dog Logic

This dark comedy is a hilarious but disturbing study of devotion to ideals in the face of urban sprawl. Hertell Daggett is the physical and spiritual caretaker of a run down pet cemetery in the California desert. His solitude is shattered by an aspiring real estate magnate, an ex- wife, and his long lost mother (presumed dead but actually living in Sacramento) who want to turn the property into a shopping mall. Hertell's fight to protect his forty burnt-out, dried-up acres from the forces of reality and real estate is a mix of the sublime and surreal -- dinosaurs, cave men, Egyptians, Godzilla and gospel music to answer the primal question: what makes man different than all the other animals?