How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

2002 · 107 min · EN · R · 5.9 (54 votes)
Dir. Michael Kalesniko · Starring Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright, Suzi Hofrichter, Lynn Redgrave, Jared Harris, Peter Riegert · Music David Robbins
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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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A portrait of creative and personal stagnation. It's a darkly funny, melancholic dive into the mind of a man adrift, grappling with his failures and the absurdity of his life. Expect existential angst with a side of dry wit.

cynicaldarkly comedicexistentialmelancholicslow-burnindie dramacharacter studyquirkyartistic failurelonelinessmidlife crisisexistential dread
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