All Dogs Go to Heaven

All Dogs Go to Heaven
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Directed by	Don Bluth
Produced by	Don Bluth Gary Goldman John Pomeroy
Screenplay by	David N. Weiss
Story by	Don Bluth Ken Cromar Gary Goldman Larry Leker Linda Miller Monica Parker John Pomeroy Guy Shulman David J. Steinberg David N. Weiss
Starring	Loni Anderson Judith Barsi Dom DeLuise Melba Moore Charles Nelson Reilly Burt Reynolds Vic Tayback
Music by	Ralph Burns
Edited by	John K. Carr
Production company	Sullivan Bluth Studios Goldcrest Films
Distributed by	United Artists (United States) Rank Organisation (United Kingdom)
Release date	November 17, 1989 (1989-11-17) (United States) February 1, 1990 (1990-02-01) (United Kingdom)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Ireland United Kingdom United States
Language	English
Budget	$13.8 million
Box office	$27.1 million (US)

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All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 animated musical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists and Goldcrest Films. It tells the story of Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds), a German Shepherd who is murdered by his former friend, Carface (voiced by Vic Tayback, in his final film role), but forsakes his place in Heaven to return to Earth, where he and his best friend, Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise), team up with a young orphan girl, Anne-Marie (voiced by Judith Barsi, in her final film role), who teaches them an important lesson about honesty, loyalty, and love.

The film is an Irish, British and American venture produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Goldcrest Films. On its cinema release, it competed directly with the Walt Disney Pictures animated film The Little Mermaid, released on the same day. While it did not repeat the box-office success of Sullivan Bluth's previous feature films, The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail and The Land Before Time, it was very successful on home video, becoming one of the biggest-selling VHS releases ever. It inspired a theatrical sequel, a television series and a holiday direct-to-video film.

All Dogs Go to Heaven was released on DVD on November 17, 1998, and as an MGM Kids edition on March 6, 2001, and for the first time rendered in high definition on Blu-ray on March 29, 2011, without special features except the original theatrical trailer. It had a DVD double feature release with its sequel on March 14, 2006, and January 18, 2011. It had also released on Blu-ray on March 29, 2011.