This article in Alaskan Public Media about Nanuq, a loveable family dog who go separated from his family on the remote St Lawrence Island when a chunk of sea ice broke off, sending Nanuq out onto adrift in the Bering Sea before the ice floated 150 miles to the Alaskan mainland, where a kind stranger found Nanuq and posted a photo on social media which the family saw, and then arranged for the 1 year-old Australian shepherd to be flown back to St Lawrence to be reunited with them is kind of hackneyed and derivative. Like didn’t we already see this same plot in that lame Homeward Bound movie back in the 1990s? Nanuq’s story even includes a harrowing encounter with an angry seal or polar bear (the family isn’t sure which, they just know Nanuq was bitten on the leg by some asshole animal). Something kind of like that happened in the Homeward Bound movie, right?
The better, more original harrowing sea journey St Lawrence Island story was the one from last year about those two Russians who drifted there from Siberia after fleeing conscription into the war in Ukraine. That was an edgier, more adult-oriented action-comedy with more convincing villains.