Cinema: Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)
Sleeping Dogs Lie (Bob Goldthwait) wasn’t really the type of film that I wanted to see at TIFF. It is a romantic comedy trying to be different by springboarding the story off of a sick prank, but instead of following through with a smart story and interesting dialogue, it progressively got worse and worse, complete with predictable plot elements and redundant voiceovers.
The event that this story centres around is not enough to make this run-of-the-mill RomCom successful. It does indeed involve a sexual encounter with a dog, which is kind of gross, but that isn’t what I didn’t like about the film. I really don’t have much to say about it, except that I felt like I had wasted one of my TIFF choices.
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Stay (new title: Sleeping Dogs Lie) (2006) * Director/Writer: Bob Goldthwait
