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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog(2002)
Status: Released
Date: 2002-02-22
59%
59 Votes
Time: 1h 47m
Overview:
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.
Languages: French, English, Spanish.
Countries:
Germany,
United States of America
Budget: $7,300,000.00
Movie: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Top 10 Billed Cast
Kenneth Branagh
Peter McGowan
Robin Wright
Melanie McGowan
Lynn Redgrave
Edna
Jared Harris
False Peter
Peter Riegert
Larry
David Krumholtz
Brian Sellars
Johnathon Schaech
Adam
Kaitlin Hopkins
Victoria
Suzy Joachim
Allana
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Overview
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.
Release Date
2002-02-22
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