How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog Movie Review 2001

Critically acclaimed playwright Peter McGowen (Branagh) has fallen on hard times after a string of flops and is feeling the pressure from his sunny-natured wife Melanie (Wright Penn) to have kids. He's trying to fix his latest work but his neighbor's incessantly barking dog keeps him awake nights. The grouch also finds he must befriend a neighbor's daughter, Amy (Hofrichter), because he needs a model for the child role in his play, although Amy's presence does some not entirely unexpected reexamination of Peter and Melanie's marriage. Branagh is amusingly sharp-tongued but the film has a squishy center.

Distribution

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 108 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Writers, L.A., Marriage, Childhood Visions

Screenplay

Michael Kalesniko

Cast

Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright Penn, Jared Harris, Suzi Hofrichter, Johnathon Schaech, Peter Riegert, Lynn Redgrave

Cinematography

Hubert Taczanowski

Director

Michael Kalesniko

Music

David Robbins