Story Behind PTSD Movie About Military Dog Max

The heart-wrenching story behind four-legged flick ‘Max’ 
New York Post
By Lindsay Putnam
June 21, 2015

“We can put up walls when it comes to our own species dying, but there’s something about dogs that causes people to lose their cynicism and drop their defenses.”

Sheldon Lettich got his first Belgian Malinois by accident.

The LA-based screenwriter had just put down a pet when he and his wife went to the pound to look for a new companion. “We like big dogs,” Lettich, 64, says. “We wanted something like a German shepherd.”

As luck would have it, the shelter had a litter of what looked like four German shepherd puppies. Lettich and his wife took two, and named the pair Tina and Charlie. But as the pups grew, Lettich realized they didn’t look like other German shepherds in the neighborhood. Months later, he found out why.

In the film, Max — who suffers from PTSD following the death of his handler, Kyle Wincott (Robbie Amell, best known as Firestorm on “The Flash”) — moves to Texas to live with the Wincott family and adapt to “civilian” life. Kyle’s younger brother, Justin (Josh Wiggins), is put in charge of the unruly canine.
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