Snow Dogs

Snow Dogs (2002) is a family comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Brian Levant. A pampered Miami dentist learns he was adopted and that his birth mother left him something far up in Alaska.

Ted Brooks, played by Cuba Gooding Jr., expects a tidy inheritance and instead gets a rowdy team of sled dogs and a stubborn mountain man named Thunder Jack, played by James Coburn, who wants the pack for himself. Ted can't stand the cold and has never touched a harness. To keep the dogs and figure out where he actually came from, he has to learn to run them across the snow.

This one is aimed squarely at families who want warmth and slapstick, not subtext: huskies, faceplants in the snow, and a soft lesson about roots. Produced by Disney, it leans on big Alaskan scenery and on Gooding, fresh off his Oscar, to carry the laughs. Stream Snow Dogs (2002) online on iFILM.