改编自纽约时报三年畅销书（同名，详见文末）。作者受蒙古纪录片启发（关于狗的纪录片，本片中多次提到狗的祖先所在Mongolia），Enzo的名字是在妻子的建议下改的（恩佐法拉利）。

作者有赛车经历，拿过地区冠军，家庭变动情节取材于另一个赛车朋友。作者在一次雨中赛车出现撞车事故后，结束了赛场生涯。

票房不好（两千万刀预算，三千万刀总票房），毕竟缺了大陆的贡献，而且娱乐性低了一些；但片中有很多细节还是很寻味，也是有很多笑点和泪点。

没见过这么分裂的评价，估计先看过影片并点评的专家，恶评一定程度上影响了观影目标人群。

短评：非常稳的剧情正剧（Drama），用狗的视角拍。 Kevin Costner那沧桑、又蕴含深沉感情的声音；正好最近演了Yellowstone，黄石公园上那略微佝偻的身影。

开篇用倒叙，从狗的老年回忆开始，感觉上，这就不是 “一条狗的使命” 那种纯商业票房片;

Amanda Seyfried除了妈妈咪呀，很久没见过她主演的片子了；

狗狗视角：先味夺人——洗发水+费洛蒙，可能是毛发修剪吸引了主人。

虽然影片里说不是爱狗人士，但现实生活中，女主的爱狗也是金毛寻回。Eve (Amanda Seyfried) says that she's "not a dog person". In reality, Amanda is very much a dog-lover. She's had a beloved golden retriever named Finn for many years.

狗狗感受胎动

金毛的狗头总是这么可爱了；一起过生日的大哥哥

狗狗闻出来cancer，这个有专门训练的（在"一条狗的使命2"里是主要情节——前爪交叉，帮助两小无猜的亚裔男主(刘宪华)发现了并及早治愈），本金毛无师自通但不会表达啊

贱敌zebra，这算是洗白了狗狗，爱撕玩具不过是因为——低血糖，噗哈哈

抖音经验告诉我们，如果是二哈，估计不会有这反应

守夜好手

哎，你的气味最难忘——都说狗狗看不清颜色，男主大猪蹄子也分不清好坏，给当时的女友买了这帽子，窝心啊

吃pepper然后在地毯上拉臭臭的坏“stupid dog”

老年金毛发白的脸，不止知道自己新陈代谢的秘密，还懂人的信念。

撕毁协议引发朋友感叹——我也想养狗了，不过别忘了去了趟动物诊所花了一千刀，过马路也学了鹿的——headlightssss

后面的念白台词就是感人了

片尾有： Based on the book by Garth Stein. 同名小说改编，后面是小说创作背景（来自wiki词条）：

The Art of Racing in the Rain is a 2008 novel by American author Garth Stein —told from a dog's point of view. The novel was a New York Times bestseller for 156 weeks.

Inspiration for the novel came after Stein watched the 1998 Mongolian documentary State of Dogs,[2][3] and then later in 2004 heard poet Billy Collins give a reading of the poem "The Revenant"[4] told from a dog's point of view.[3][5]

Stein had originally named the dog "Juan Pablo" after Colombian race car driver Juan Pablo Montoya, but changed his name at the suggestion of his wife, naming the dog instead after Enzo Ferrari, founder of the famous Italian automobile marque of the same name.[3][5]

The race car driving experience of the novel's character, Denny, is based on Stein's own experience in racing cars,[5] and on another race car driver who is a close friend of Stein's who was dealing with some family turbulence at the time.[3] Stein moved from New York City to Seattle in 2001 and became involved in "high performance driver education,"[5] received his racing license with the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA),[5] and won the points championship in the Northwest region Spec Miata class in 2003.[5] Stein left racing after crashing while racing in the rain.