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Sleeping Dogs Lie

Everyone has a secret

2006 · 1h 27m · R Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait

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Overview

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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All reviews
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Plays into an almost primal fear that there's something so awful in your past that if you spill the beans the other person will split -- no matter how much he or she professes that nothing you could say would ever have that effect.

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

It's not like Amy was a serial canine abuser, for crying out loud. Had she been, the movie would be much more disgusting but also a lot more interesting and potentially more funny.

Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh

Improbably, the movie manages to regroup after its outrageous opening and turn into an unpredictable, almost sweet, romantic comedy about the limits of candour.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh

A warm, mature, thought-provoking film that is, at times, surreal, often hilarious and ultimately very touching. Nice one, Bobcat.

Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten

Sleeping Dogs Lie is worse than offensive, it's boring, and these busy days that's really unforgivable.

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

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