Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:32
Rotten:18
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Oct 20, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Bobcat Goldthwait, the frantic, shrieking comedian who gained fame in several POLICE ACADEMY films, follows up his debut feature as a writer-director--1992's SHAKES THE CLOWN--with SLEEPING DOGS... [More]
Starring: Melinda Page Hamilton, Bryce Johnson, Geoffrey Pierson, Colby French
Director: Bob Goldthwait
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Reviews for Sleeping Dogs Lie
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 C+ |
Leaves us with the less than satisfying disturbing message it's best to let sleeping dogs lie. Full Review |
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 50/100 |
Anchored, and essentially redeemed, by a fearless performance from Melinda Page Hamilton. Full Review |
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3/4 |
...ultimately an emotionally affecting and thoroughly accomplished piece of work... Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
I liked the film but thought the bestiality theme held it back. A lot of people won't want to see the movie. Full Review |
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An evenly paced, gently acted and subdued black comedy with a subversive moral at its heart. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Had me howling with laughter. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Hamilton is wonderful as the bruised victim of an oedipal insanity for truth. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
This low-budget comedy-drama may not have the glossiest of coats, but nor is it the dog you might be expecting. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A bestiality rom-com with unexpected charm. Not quite the dog’s bollocks, but certainly no dog’s dinner either. Full Review |
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Despite being thin on laughs and light on conventional romance, Sleeping Dogs manages to be both warm and witty.
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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There's an ingratiatingly quirky spirit which keeps bubbling up in Sleeping Dogs Lie and merrily propels it along Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
I can't think of another film that so directly and actively tackles the question of the actual value of honesty. Full Review |
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This shabbily shot comedy about the limits of being truthful is essentially a one-joke premise that spirals into an uncomfortable series of situations. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Improbably, the movie manages to regroup after its outrageous opening and turn into an unpredictable, almost sweet, romantic comedy about the limits of candour. Full Review |
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