A Boy and His Dog is a 1975 science fiction film directed by L. Q. Jones, based on a 1969 cycle of narratives by science fiction author Harlan Ellison titled "A Boy and His Dog". The film tells the story of a boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team in a post-apocalyptic world.
The main character, Vic (Don Johnson), is an 18-year-old boy, born in and scavenging throughout the wasteland of the former southwestern United States. Vic is most concerned with food and sex; having lost both of his parents, he has no formal education and does not understand ethics or morality. He is accompanied by a well-read, misanthropic, telepathic dog named Blood, who helps him locate women, in return for food. Blood can not forage for himself, due to the same genetic engineering that granted him telepathy. The two steal for a living, evading bands of marauders, berserk androids, and mutants. Blood and Vic have an occasionally antagonistic relationship, though they realize they need each other. Blood wishes to find a legendary promised land, though Vic believes that they must make the best of what they have.
