Where the Red Fern Grows is a 2003 American drama adventure film directed by Lyman Dayton and Sam Pillsbury and starring Joseph Ashton, Dave Matthews, Ned Beatty and Dabney Coleman. Based on the children's book of the same name by Wilson Rawls and a remake of the 1974 film of the same name, it follows the story of Billy Colman who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs to hunt raccoons in the Ozarks.

Plot

A middle-aged man named Billy Coleman rescues a beagle from stray dogs. He takes care of it, having a flashback to when he was ten years old and living in the Ozarks with his parents and two younger sisters.