So, “All Dogs Go to Heaven” is one of my favorite movies ever, sensically, since it was my favorite movie when I was ages 3-5. (It came out in 1989.) 

I know we had it in the house on VHS for the rest of my childhood, so I know I’ve seen it a multitude of times (you know that feeling when you watch a movie you know your parents put on for you whenever they wanted you to shut up, and you can anticipate the tone or the cadence of a particular voice saying something but maybe don’t know the words?), but I just watched it, just now (yes, I was having a hard time sleeping and thought maybe it would lull me) and the following things totally blew my mind:

- it takes place in New Orleans in 1939

- the last thing Anne Marie hears out of Charlie’s mouth before he actually dies is about how he’s just using her and doesn’t love her, and he never actually gets to apologize (he only says “I’m sorry” while she’s asleep)

- the music is TERRIBLE (except for the “Come Home to My Heart” sequence)

- the Alligator character is FEMALE

- I still sobbed like a little bitch throughout the whole thing

- did they not have child services in 1939? WTF?

- Charlie’s voice is Burt Reynolds?

- There’s no way Carface should’ve been allowed in Heaven, canine or nay.

- The most shocking of all… this role was the little voice actresses’ last. Judith Barsi was shot in the head by her own father in 1988 at the age of ten years old. Horrifying.

Here’s the last scene.