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      How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

      2000, Comedy/Drama, 1h 47m

      34 Reviews 1,000+ Ratings

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      With a killer plot that fails to thicken despite a standout performance by Kenneth Branagh:How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog plays out as insipid drollery. Read critic reviews

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      How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) (L to R) Suzi Hofrichter, Robin Wright Penn, Kenneth Branagh, and Lucina Jenney. (L to R) Peter Riegert and Kenneth Branagh. Robin Wright Penn. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)

      Movie Info

      Peter (Kenneth Branagh) is a successful playwright who has hit a dry spell. His wife Melanie (Robin Wright Penn) wants a baby, but Peter isn't ready. His mother-in-law (Lynn Redgrave) has moved in. He's being stalked by a fan who thinks that he is Peter. After his new neighbor's dog starts barking in the middle of the night, Peter starts to spend time with their daughter Amy (Suzi Hofrichter). He begins to form a friendship with her and realizes how to solve his writer's block...

      • Rating: R (Language)

      • Genre: Comedy, Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Michael Kalesniko

      • Producer: Michael Nozik, Brad Weston, Nancy M. Ruff

      • Writer: Michael Kalesniko

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $48.6K

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: Artistic License

      • Production Co: Millennium Films, South Fork Pictures, Lonsdale Pictures

      • Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Surround

      Cast & Crew

      Kenneth Branagh
      Robin Wright
      Jared Harris
      David Krumholtz
      Peri Gilpin
      Robert Redford
      Michael Potkins
      Willi Bär
      Avi Lerner
      Danny Dimbort
      Trevor Short
      John Thompson
      Hubert Taczanowski
      Robin Urdang
      David Robbins
      Stephen J. Lineweaver
      Pamela Martin
      Mary Claire Hannan

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      • May 20, 2010

        entertaining role for kenneth branagh as a playright living and working in l.a a bitter man not wanting kids, while his wife is all for it, with his play not going well, and a dog in the neighbourhood causing bother, theres hope in new family and there kids, he gets to know them, and something awakens in him, hes still bitter but he certainly is changing, a likeable dramatic comedy, with some great witty abservations on hollywood, brits in america and family life, it all comes together well,

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      • Apr 17, 2010

        Smart, witty, charming.

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      • Jun 10, 2005

        [font=Century Gothic]"How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog" is about playwright, Peter Magowan(Kenneth Branagh), who used to be an enfant terrible of the theater set and is now nearing middle age. After a run of successful hits, he has been suffering recently through a string of failures and desperately wants a hit but difficult rehearsals for his newest play is not making anything easier. He is married to Melanie(Robin Wright Penn) who teaches dance and desperately wants to have a baby.(This is the second movie this week[/font] I've seen [font=Century Gothic]where Robin Wright Penn plays a character who wants to have a baby. Is this a trend or am I having one of those weeks?) Peter is much more hesitant about having a child. Add into this mix - a noisy neighborhood dog, new neighbors and a mysterious stranger.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog" is about a character finally growing up as he nears middle age which I can see but this does not necessarily have to include having children. This is almost a good movie and its only real strength is a superb performance from Kenneth Branagh. And it is too long by about twenty minutes and feeds on easy targets like morning news shows.[/font]

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