Sleeping Dogs Lie

2006 "Everyone has a secret"
5.9| 1h27m| R| en| More Info
Released: 20 October 2006 Released
Producted By: HareBrained Pictures
Country: United States of America
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A recently engaged woman's life is thrown into turmoil after confessing to her fiancé that she once experimented with bestiality.

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NipPierce Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
realreviews72 This is a movie written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait (that also happens to have the gorgeous Morgan Murphy in the cast). If you read the synopsis you will immediately think this is an out there comedy, but in actuality Goldthwait does a brilliant job turning this into a nice little film. The story is about a woman, who in college- out of boredom- 'sucked off' her dog. Years later she is in a serious relationship and struggles with telling her fiancé about her 'experience' while in college. While the two are visiting her parents, she tells him about it but is overhead by her brother who confesses the secret to the entire family. Certainly, you can imagine this is a perfect scenario to have a 'Meet the Fockers' type of comedy but it turns out to be more about how families, friends and lovers learn to accept people and choose how far truth goes. Of course, there is humor in the movie- very dark humor- but you could change her secret to be her having killed someone, or her being a prostitute, etc. and the masses would get behind this as a 'heart-warming' movie. Instead, Goldthwait, chooses a very deviant event and then tells the story of a family healing. In the three films I have seen that Goldthwait has written and directed (God Bless America, World's Greatest Dad and Sleeping Dogs Lie), he has done a brilliant job of taking an extreme deviant event and intertwining it with a mainstream story. I thought it was brilliant of Goldthwait to avoid the mainstream 'confessions' and just go for the gusto. On a side note, I seriously cannot get enough of Morgan Murphy. There seems to be some connection between Murphy and Goldthwait as she appears in all of his films- and she is certainly not best known for her acting but rather her writing.
Nancy Bob Goldthwait? Interesting...Once you get past the "disgusting thing", this movie makes you think about how honest we are with those we love. How much information is too much? Is withholding something the same as lying? Do we really need to share everything with someone in order to be close with them? Does someone need to know everything about you to truly love you?I thought it was well written and acted. I don't recall seeing Melinda Page Hamilton before this, but I thought she was great. Her parents also did a good job with their roles.I'd watch it again.
barbecuedbanana This film is totally unbelievable. The only way a girl would perform this act on a dog is if she had serious mental health issues or had a long history of sexual abuse or was under duress. Yet we are asked to believe that an otherwise 'normal' healthy female just got a bit bored and 'made a little mistake' and oops had a sexual encounter with a dog. What's more it never had any detrimental affect on her ever again except when she tells someone.Not she was raped by a dog or the dog did something she couldn't resist - she actively initiated oral sex and completed this activity with a pet dog of her own choice. She wasn't on drugs or anything she just 'felt like it'.The rest of the film seeks to put this action in a light of 'hey it could happen to anyone she's only being honest'.But really for this to be believed we have to believe that this is a woman who is capable of doing absolutely ANYTHING if she 'just feels like it'. Think about it - could she have considered the rights and wrongs of this action before carrying it out? If she had she would have stopped in her tracks. Human beings have instinctive boundaries for reasons. If we are now to start considering bestiality as a 'cute' little aberration, what is next? Child abuse? Yet the 'heroine' is portrayed as a hard done by, nice girl who had one moment of aberration. If she had been forced to carry out this act by an abuser - the story might have made more sense and I would have been able to accept the storyline. But there is no way that anyone carries out the prolonged activity required and referred to even once - if there is not some deep, disturbance that requires a great deal of psychiatric help. This is NO WAY a one off happening in an otherwise perfect life.I know this is just a film, but it is through normalising behaviour such as this via the media that society becomes desensitised and more and more awful realities become possible.I could imagine an abuser showing this to a child to persuade them that it isn't such a big deal and then moving on with their agenda. It could also be used by an abuser to underline to a child not to tell about the abuse - because look how people will react to you if you do.This is not about truth. The director WANTS people to think it's about truth. This is about degradation and how easily people (the viewing public)can be manipulated into accepting the most appalling concepts if wrapped up in the right way. The watching public are being manipulated, degraded and laughed at.This is a film in which the actors and the viewers are being humiliated and made fools of in a very sophisticated way by a clever but extremely disturbed film writer.This film appears to me to be being used as a vehicle for the creator of the film to get off on the excitement of playing with your mind in an abusive manner. I don't know whether it is conscious on their part - but it is the most classic example of Mind F***k that I have ever encountered.I hope that this doesn't offend anyone too much. But if you watched this film - I don't think there is any room left to be offended by anything any more.
Duellist Sorry to start off with a quote from another movie, but it sums up the movie quite nicely. Amy and John are engaged and on a trip to visit Amy's parents, she reveals a deep, disgusting secret that blows everything apart. It's a very interesting story about the lies we tell and the secrets we keep to maintain some semblance of order and peace in our lives. For example, Amy's Dad knows she smokes, but doesn't say anything about it to either Amy or Amy's mom. Is he lying? Or keeping the peace? The movie is very funny in parts and very sad/bittersweet in others. Its short runtime (87 min) packs a heck of a punch with great characters that you'll care about, even Randy. The acting is all top notch and the directing is very good.Be warned, however, that if you are sensitive to "adult themes," (note the MPAA rating, it's dead on), this movie is NOT for you.

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