Beth Winter (
Keaton) along with her daughter, rescues a lost dog from the roadside and names him "Freeway." Her neurosurgeon husband Joseph (
Kline), is distracted and self-involved and does not want to keep the dog, despite that Beth has formed a strong friendship with Freeway. When her daughter marries at their cabin in the mountains, Beth is deeply upset when, after the wedding, her husband loses the dog. He fails to pay attention while talking on his phone as Freeway runs after a deer and disappears. All family members assist in a massive search over the next several days to find Freeway, even engaging the services of a psychic gypsy. Freeway is not found, despite everyone's efforts and the family must leave to return to their busy lives. They board an airplane and while flying over the mountains, Beth sees him. Her once indifferent husband fakes a ruptured appendix in order to convince the pilot to turn the plane around. In one last attempt at a search, they scour the forest where Beth saw the dog from the plane. At last, Freeway appears in a field and runs to Beth. Reunited, the family is brought closer together. ==Cast==