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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
- Director: Michael Kalesniko
- Writer: Michael Kalesniko
- Producer: Willi Bär; Rainer Bienger
CGiii Comment
This is Kalesniko's last film to date - not too difficult to see why.
Brannagh over-acts in, supposedly, wittily constructed little scenes - 30 minutes into the movie and the urge to FF is overwhelming.
Its predictability is totally nauseating - erm, the audience quite likes the odd surprise. Not here - mundane and flimsy.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is a Los Angeles playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility. A stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him. Neighbors have a new dog that barks all night. His wife wants to have a child, and he does not. He's become impotent. He's working on a new play when a single mother moves in next door with her eight-year-old daughter. His wife immediately invites the girl into the McGowan household. Will this child stir Peter's paternal feelings? Will she also help him get his dialogue right? And what of his doppelganger and the neighbor's dog?
Cast & Characters
Kenneth Branagh as Peter McGowen;
Robin Wright Penn as Melanie McGowen;
Suzi Hofrichter as Amy Walsh;
Lynn Redgrave as Edna;
Jared Harris as False Peter;
Peter Riegert as Larry;
David Krumholtz as Brian Sellars;
Johnathon Schaech as Adam;
Kaitlin Hopkins as Victoria;
Suzy Joachim as Allana;
Brett Rickaby as Janitor;
Lucinda Jenney as Trina Walsh;
Derek Kellock as Amy's Father;
Stacy Hogue as Babysitter;
Peri Gilpin as Debra Salhany