Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 18
Though Sleeping Dogs Lie treats its subject and characters humanely, it's unable to overcome the low-budget production and Bobcat Goldthwait's pedestrian directing.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 4
Though Sleeping Dogs Lie treats its subject and characters humanely, it's unable to overcome the low-budget production and Bobcat Goldthwait's pedestrian directing.
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A youthful indiscretion threatens to derail the relationship between an otherwise predictable young woman and her nice-guy fiancé in director Bob Goldthwait's revealing look at the high price of honesty in committed relationships. To the unassuming eye, Amy is a normal young woman with a bright future and a fabulous fiancé, but when Amy's probing husband-to-be suggests that the both parties come clean about their pasts before exchanging rings, the revelation that follows may be more than he's
Oct 20, 2006 Wide
Apr 10, 2007
Samuel Goldwyn Films
All Critics (50) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (18) | DVD (1)
Plays into an almost primal fear that there's something so awful in your past that if you spill the beans the other person will split -- no matter how much he or she professes that nothing you could say would ever have that effect.
It's not like Amy was a serial canine abuser, for crying out loud. Had she been, the movie would be much more disgusting but also a lot more interesting and potentially more funny.
Improbably, the movie manages to regroup after its outrageous opening and turn into an unpredictable, almost sweet, romantic comedy about the limits of candour.
Sleeping Dogs Lie is worse than offensive, it's boring, and these busy days that's really unforgivable.
Sleeping Dogs Lie does collar big laughs for anyone who isn't skeeved out by the whole idea.
[Director] 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?
Leaves us with the less than satisfying disturbing message it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.
Anchored, and essentially redeemed, by a fearless performance from Melinda Page Hamilton.
...ultimately an emotionally affecting and thoroughly accomplished piece of work...
Bobcat Goldthwait has produced a flm that understands something about the gulf between what men claim they want from women, and the way they behave when we give it to them.
I liked the film but thought the bestiality theme held it back. A lot of people won't want to see the movie.
An evenly paced, gently acted and subdued black comedy with a subversive moral at its heart.
Had me howling with laughter.
Hamilton is wonderful as the bruised victim of an oedipal insanity for truth.
This low-budget comedy-drama may not have the glossiest of coats, but nor is it the dog you might be expecting.
Despite its vomit-inducing revelation, this is a surprisingly sweet romcom with a strong comic performance by Hamilton and some thought-provoking things to say about relationships.
A bestiality rom-com with unexpected charm. Not quite the dog's bollocks, but certainly no dog's dinner either.
Despite being thin on laughs and light on conventional romance, Sleeping Dogs manages to be both warm and witty.
You can rely on Goldthwaite to demolish sentimental notions with the power of a force ten gale, but clumsy filmmaking seriously hampers his idea's own effectiveness, resulting in a rather plodding black comedy.
There's an ingratiatingly quirky spirit which keeps bubbling up in Sleeping Dogs Lie and merrily propels it along
I can't think of another film that so directly and actively tackles the question of the actual value of honesty.
This shabbily shot comedy about the limits of being truthful is essentially a one-joke premise that spirals into an uncomfortable series of situations.
A large part of the movie's appeal is Page's ability to make both the entire story believable and her character entirely sympathetic, while Goldthwait muses on the price of absolute honesty with your mate.
After seeing the triumphant 'World's Best Dad' I saught out this earlier work from Goldthwait and wasn't disappointed. Tackling the fundamental life questions around truth and honesty in relationships, it dares to challenge the romcom cliche 'honesty is always the best policy'. The headline grabbing bestiality is only
February 26, 2011
Super Reviewer
"A youthful, impulsive sexual encounter opens the door to a dark comedy about the complexities of honesty."An impulsive sexual encounter from her past haunts Amy, an otherwise seemingly normal young woman with a bright future and nice-guy fiancé. But her fiancé has suggested that the couple be
January 23, 2009
Super Reviewer
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