Movie: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

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Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh

Peter McGowan

Robin Wright
Robin Wright

Melanie McGowan

Suzi Hofrichter
Suzi Hofrichter

Amy Walsh

Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Redgrave

Edna

Jared Harris
Jared Harris

False Peter

Peter Riegert
Peter Riegert

Larry

David Krumholtz
David Krumholtz

Brian Sellars

Johnathon Schaech
Johnathon Schaech

Adam

Kaitlin Hopkins
Kaitlin Hopkins

Victoria

Suzy Joachim
Suzy Joachim

Allana

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    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.

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    2002-02-22

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