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59% Critic Match
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
5.9 / 10• 2002• 1h 47m•R• English
ComedyDrama
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Kenneth Branagh
Peter McGowan
Lead
Robin Wright
Melanie McGowan
SH
Suzi Hofrichter
Amy Walsh
Lynn Redgrave
Edna
Jared Harris
False Peter
Peter Riegert
Larry
David Krumholtz
Brian Sellars
Johnathon Schaech
Adam
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Michael Kalesniko's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
