When Miami dentist Ted Brooks (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) learns that his birth
mother has passed away and that he was named in her will, he travels to
Alaska to claim his inheritance. Rather than the large chunk of change that
many people would expect, Ted instead receives his mother's pack of
rowdy
sled dogs and her property. Although the dogs seemingly have it in for Ted,
he decides to keep the dogs and race them in the local race, the Arctic
Challenge, spiting a mountain man (played by James Coburn) who wants
the dogs. What follows is a comedy detailing Ted's adventures in learning to
run the sled dogs.