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Peter McGowan
Melanie McGowan
False Peter
Adam
Larry
Edna
Critic Reviews for How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
All Critics (33) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (14)
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Has an unusually high ratio of laughs per minute.
February 27, 2004 -
Falsehoods pile up, undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice.
March 1, 2002 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
Kenneth Branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly British playwright grounds this overstuffed, erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in Los Angeles.
February 22, 2002 | Rating: 2.5/4 -
... comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental.
February 22, 2002 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review… -
Audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed, downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart, sugar-free wit.
February 22, 2002 | Rating: 3.5/5 -
A wordy wisp of a comedy.
February 22, 2002 | Rating: 2/4
Audience Reviews for How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
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May 20, 2010entertaining role for kenneth branagh as a playright living and working in l.a a bitter man not wanting kids, while his wife is all for it, with his play not going well, and a dog in the neighbourhood causing bother, theres hope in new family and there kids, he gets to know them, and something awakens in him, hes still bitter but he certainly is changing, a likeable dramatic comedy, with some great witty abservations on hollywood, brits in america and family life, it all comes together well,scott g Super Reviewer
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Apr 17, 2010Smart, witty, charming.Matthew M Super Reviewer
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Jun 10, 2005[font=Century Gothic]"How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog" is about playwright, Peter Magowan(Kenneth Branagh), who used to be an enfant terrible of the theater set and is now nearing middle age. After a run of successful hits, he has been suffering recently through a string of failures and desperately wants a hit but difficult rehearsals for his newest play is not making anything easier. He is married to Melanie(Robin Wright Penn) who teaches dance and desperately wants to have a baby.(This is the second movie this week[/font] I've seen [font=Century Gothic]where Robin Wright Penn plays a character who wants to have a baby. Is this a trend or am I having one of those weeks?) Peter is much more hesitant about having a child. Add into this mix - a noisy neighborhood dog, new neighbors and a mysterious stranger.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog" is about a character finally growing up as he nears middle age which I can see but this does not necessarily have to include having children. This is almost a good movie and its only real strength is a superb performance from Kenneth Branagh. And it is too long by about twenty minutes and feeds on easy targets like morning news shows.[/font]Walter M Super Reviewer
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