How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Comedy, Drama
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2002
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The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.
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Details
Runtime:
107 min
Release date:
22 Feb 2002
Country:
DE, US
Languages:
French, English, Spanish
Budget:
$7,300,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
6 wins
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Has an unusually high ratio of laughs per minute.
– Kirk Honeycutt,
Hollywood Reporter,
27 Feb 2004
rotten:
Falsehoods pile up, undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Mar 2002
rotten:
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.
– Gene Seymour,
Newsday,
22 Feb 2002
rotten:
... comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb 2002
fresh:
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.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
22 Feb 2002