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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama
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Director:
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Michael Kalesniko
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Actors:
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Robin Wright Penn,
Peter Riegert,
Lucinda Jenney,
Brett Rickaby,
Suzy Joachim,
Stacy Hogue,
Suzi Hofrichter,
Derek Kellock,
Kenneth Branagh,
Lynn Redgrave,
Jared Harris,
David Krumholtz,
Johnathon Schaech,
Kaitlin Hopkins,
Peri Gilpin
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Duration:
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103 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)74
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Plot Summary:
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Peter McGowan (Kenneth Branagh) is a Los Angeles playwright with pencil-pusher's block. He still carries a famous for as a cynical bad boy, an image he earned with the gigantic ascendancy of edgy plays he wrote when he was much younger. Now Peter is a more of age man who has settled into a comfortable home get-up-and-go with his unequalled, encouraging, modern, nonsense callow chain Melanie (Robin Wright Penn), who wants nothing more than to have a baby. But Peter, an impotent insomniac, can't even devise it. His matrix few plays have not fared ooze at the department, which only makes it more... autocratic that he by the bucketful genius into his newest work. Juggling moody actors (Johnathan Schaech and Kaitlin Hopkins) and a very much distracted producer (Peter Riegert), Peter searches desperately for a muse. He finds it in Amy (Suzi Hofrichter), the 6-year-adept daughter of his new neighbors. Amy is a meek twist with a emollient case of cerebral palsy who takes instantly to the McGowans, and even learns to dancing party when Melanie, a children's ballet mentor, agrees to teach her. Notwithstanding Peter begins to write again, he tranquil suffers from insomnia and he wanders the streets at night, again get-together up with a vagrants humankind (Jared Harris) who is his doppelganger. All in all, HOW TO KILL YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DOG is a somber one's own flesh histrionics that finds a pleasing weight between Peter's grouchiness and Melanie's peppiness.
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Hmm - bit bland - but very sweet.......
I found this film quite difficult to review. This is probably largely down to the way I watched it - in different segments; I would pause the DVD for a couple of days and then start up again meaning it took nearly a week in total to watch the film, and I never really got a feel for it! However, the fact that I chose to watch it this way does speak volumes - this is not the most involving film ever made, nor is it anywhere near the funniest! It does come together really well in the end though, the acting is pretty good (especially the little girl next door)and the whole film has a novel- and quite pleasurable - realistic feel to it. As usual the male characters are far better developed than the female but this is miles away from traditional Hollywood mysoginistic, image centred, contrived &...
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
turned the film off halfway through as it was a load of rubbish and i was constantly waiting for something funny to happen.very boring.
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