Sleeping Dogs Lie

Name: Sleeping Dogs Lie
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: October 20, 2006
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Brian Posehn, Bryce Johnson, Melinda Page Hamilton

2006

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Roadside Attractions | Release Date: October 20, 2006 | R

Starring: Brian Posehn, Bryce Johnson, Melinda Page Hamilton

Summary: Bobcat Goldthwait has written and directed a story that adeptly explores honesty, family, forgiveness and courage. By frankly probing our relationships and idealization of the absolute virtues of honesty, Sleeping Dogs Lie is a funny and perceptive dark comedy. (Roadside Attractions)

Director: Bobcat Goldthwait

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 87 min

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Owen Gleiberman

Hamilton, in her movie debut, is a find: the kinkstress next door. Read full review

Duane Byrge

Carnal, crazy and, most amazingly, heartwarming love story. Read full review

Robert Wilonsky

[Goldthwait] handles it beautifully, crafting from such rough stuff something astoundingly sweet and sharply funny about forgiveness, unconditional love, tenderness, and the things we hide just to get ourselves from one day to the next. Read full review

Mark Olsen

Rather than the escalating gross-out spectacular it could have been, Sleeping Dogs Lie is an unexpectedly thoughtful look at what it takes to make relationships work. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

There are no laughs to be had here, though, unless you count nervous titters and frat-boy sniggers at the very thought of, you know. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

It's not exactly going to be on PETA's 10-best list. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Goldthwait explores his themes more thoughtfully than you'd expect, but ultimately, we know just how things will end. And what's subversive about that? Read full review

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Toasty87

Jul 11, 2020

Feels very rushed towards the end but I did enjoy most of it and the casting was very good.

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ChadS.

Apr 25, 2007

A true dog lover, had they written "Sleeping Dogs Lie", would emphasize Amy's other sin(which is arguably worse than bestiality): After sex, sex that she initiated, she dropped off her pooch...at the pound...to be euthanized. Talk about your love 'em and leave 'em stories. It A true dog lover, had they written "Sleeping Dogs Lie", would emphasize Amy's other sin(which is arguably worse than bestiality): After sex, sex that she initiated, she dropped off her pooch...at the pound...to be euthanized. Talk about your love 'em and leave 'em stories. It recalls(well, not really) that passage in "Lolita" in which Nabokov describes the angst a canine experiences when its master puts an end to their game of "fetch the ball". Now consider Amy's dog, sitting in his cage like a furry Magdalene sister, probably wondering aloud to himself, "Ruff...Ruff...Ruff! Ruff!... Ruff..."(translation: I was just lying there minding my own business, and then...) It's not Amy who should feel humiliated, it's the dog. John(Bryce Johnson) breaks up with Amy(Melinda Page Hamilton) for the wrong reason. Her parents miss the bigger picture, too. Although "Sleeping Dogs Lie" does a mind-bending job of reconciling gross-out humor within a romantic comedy, the film is dishonest about who we should really feel sorry for.… Expand

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sdumers

Jun 21, 2021

Lewd and sexually disgusting for a comedy film where a woman “performs a sexual action on an animal!!!

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