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Movie Profile
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2000 · United States - Michael Kalesniko
The film stars Kenneth Branagh as 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. His latest play is in the hands of effeminate director Brian Sellars (David Krumholtz), who is obsessed with Petula Clark; his wife Melanie (Robin Wright Penn) is determined to have a baby; he finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter (Suzi Hofrichter) who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger (Jared Harris) who claims to be Peter McGowan and develops a friendship of sorts with him.
Genres:
Comedy, Drama
External links:
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Do... at IMDB How to Kill Your Neighbor's Do... at Wikipedia
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Rotten Tomatoes
11 Critic reviews
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David Rooney
Variety
October 18, 2008 read full article
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Houston Chronicle
July 21, 2005 read full article
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Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
Has an unusually high ratio of laughs per minute.
February 27, 2004 read full article
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Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
Falsehoods pile up, undermining the movie's reality and stifling its creator's comic voice.
March 01, 2002 read full article
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Gene Seymour
Newsday
Kenneth Branagh's energetic sweet-and-sour performance as a curmudgeonly British playwright grounds this overstuffed, erratic dramedy in which he and his improbably forbearing wife contend with craziness and child-rearing in Los Angeles.
February 22, 2002 read full article
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Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
... comes alive only when it switches gears to the sentimental.
February 22, 2002 read full article
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Stephen Holden
New York Times
Audiences conditioned to getting weepy over saucer-eyed, downy-cheeked moppets and their empathetic caretakers will probably feel emotionally cheated by the film's tart, sugar-free wit.
February 22, 2002 read full article
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Megan Turner
New York Post
A wordy wisp of a comedy.
February 22, 2002 read full article
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Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
Neighbor's Dog operates at a consistent chuckle pitch that frequently gives way to guffaws.
February 22, 2002 read full article
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Justine Elias
Village Voice
As crimes go, writer-director Michael Kalesniko's How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog is slight but unendurable.
February 19, 2002 read full article
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Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
Branagh, in his most forceful non-Shakespeare screen performance, grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit.
February 15, 2002 read full article
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