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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

20025.91h 47m

Overview

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.

Directed by Michael Kalesniko
Written by Michael Kalesniko
Produced by Lisa Bellomo, Michael Nozik, Brad Weston
Box OfficeBudget: $7.3M0

Top Cast

Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh

Peter McGowan

Robin Wright

Robin Wright

Melanie McGowan

S

Suzi Hofrichter

Amy Walsh

Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave

Edna

Jared Harris

Jared Harris

False Peter

Peter Riegert

Peter Riegert

Larry

David Krumholtz

David Krumholtz

Brian Sellars

Johnathon Schaech

Johnathon Schaech

Adam

Kaitlin Hopkins

Kaitlin Hopkins

Victoria

Suzy Joachim

Suzy Joachim

Allana

Themes & Keywords

rage and hatescreenplaystalkeralzheimer's diseaseneighbordogdoppelgänger

About How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog is a comedy, drama film released in 2002 exploring themes of rage and hate, screenplay, stalker, alzheimer's disease, neighbor, dog. Directed by Michael Kalesniko, it stars Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright, Suzi Hofrichter. 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.

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