I haven't seen it since but it contained enough violence and car chase / crash action to stay in the mind of an 18 year old. Funnily enough car crime was at a massive high and i wasn't into that but i found it informative and gave you an insight into the underworld of Northern Ireland in the early 90's. Content relating to reproduction (getting pregnant, miscarriage, birth control) might be too mature for younger viewers. But with a heart as big as his appetite for trouble, Marley sees the Grogans through the ups and downs of life and love, and they ultimately realize that "the world's worst dog" truly brings out the best in them.

Jenny exhibits postpartum depression symptoms, stressed with raising two small children, and becoming increasingly impatient and irritable with Marley and also John.

While Marley's rambunctious antics will certainly amuse kids, there's some emotionally challenging material here. This seemed unusual for what appeared to be a budget British / Irish film - I always assumed it was a BBC produced / subsidised movie.

The five Catholic youths in this story live in Northern Ireland, surrounded as they are by the armed-camp mentality of their adults.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Sebastian is a womanizer, and he uses props to entice women whenever he can -- including using Marley as babe bait and even pushing a stroller over to a comely woman for attention.

For one thing, there's no conflict, unless you count the tension between a guy and his untrainable pooch.And after John’s 40th birthday party she surprises him by stripping naked and jumping into their backyard pool.

As a result, Sectarianism means little to them and they are truly one for all and all for one in their little band of revellers which includes the titular trio; the runtish Sean, known as 'Wart', who has lost family to the Troubles, the accident prone, short sighted Marley, and the fiercely intelligent, feisty Frances each played by Marc O'Shea, Michael Liebmann and Bronagh Gallagher. Further criticism came from Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent who said that "Marley himself is surprisingly one-dimensional" and the ending was overemotional, going "for the heart-wrenching kind which will always provoke a response, but does so with absolutely no grace". After turning 40, and envious when Sebastian is hired by The New York Times, John grows dissatisfied with being a columnist.There were so many open references to sex and scenes that clearly portrayed a couple (married, yes, but still. The family pay their last respects to their beloved pet as they bury him beneath a tree in their front yard. As it was many years ago since I last the film I had actually forgot about it until a friend of mine was talking about it, funily enough only last week.