Instead, Amy and John are incredibly average young people (he wants to be a writer, she’s a kindergarten teacher), one of whom did something that even the most kinkiest among us might find disconcerting, did not get off on it, and now believes it to be dishonest to not reveal it to her man. Refreshingly, Sleeping Dogs Lie is not about kinky freaks who must learn to love themselves. They are both as bourgeois and vanilla as can be, and their sexual frankness is both uncomfortable and oddly endearing. When John, the fiancé, talks about jacking off for the first time, he is as giggly as a schoolboy. When Amy (Melinda Page Hamilton), spices up a bedroom confession with a made-up sexual liaison with her close female friend in order to avoid telling her fiancé of her canine indiscretion, she believes (correctly) that it will turn him on instead of freak him out.
What follows is a pleasantly low-key, almost naturalistic comedy seemingly designed to thwart expectations. And, yes, the film hinges upon what happens after a girl gives her dog head, but that carnal act is dispensed of quickly and relatively tastefully in the first few minutes of the film. Sleeping Dogs Lie may have been directed by bizarro Eighties comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, but it is less about funny voices than the small human damage inflicted by actions and words we wish we could take back. And it’s likely the audience who does go to Sleeping Dogs Lie will expect a gross-out in the Farrelly Brothers vein, only to be sorely disappointed by what’s essentially an oddly straightforward romantic comedy. Sadder still is that the premise is probably too icky by a wide shot for the people who would most respond to the movie. That there is more emotional honesty about relationships in Sleeping Dogs Lie, a film that features a canine blowjob as its central plot point, than in any other American romantic comedy of recent memory is a sad state of affairs. Bobcat Goldthwait, U.S., Roadside Attractions He and Amy’s father Geoff Pierson (my favorite Goldthwait actor, also playing authority figures in the other two recent ones) are highlights.Dir. It’s not generally a laugh-out-loud comedy, but towards the end as Amy is dealing with her breakup, her mom’s death, brother’s imprisonment and dad’s unforgiving attitude, Brian Posehn stops by her place with just the best scene, saying a string of awkwardly terrible things.
#Sleeping dogs lie 2006 plus
Before all the prison and death, Amy and her man are having a “you can tell me anything” moment and he doesn’t take her confession well, plus the brother overhears and blabs to everyone. Happy family + boyfriend – fuckup brother:Īmy invites her fiancee to her parents’ house for the usual awkward-family comedy setup – though usually there isn’t a racist meth-addicted brother (Jack Plotnick, star of Wrong) who goes to prison at the end of the movie, causing his mother to have a fatal aneurysm. Katy says the movie’s ultimate message, that truth is overrated and secrets should be kept from loved ones for their own good, is pretty common these days and not as subversive as Bobcat and I think. Supposedly he plays Roy Orbison towards the end, having sex with the protagonist’s mom in flashback, but not recognizably. Or “this dog blowjob movie,” as the movie’s own writer/director calls it.
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