
The resentful Dougie wishes to bring sis down a few notches from being her parents’ golden girl, upset that he’s always been thought of as the reject. Things get out of hand, when Amy’s mentally disturbed smack-smoking loser brother Dougie (Jack Plotnick) overhears and tells her uptight parents (Bonita Friedericy & Geoff Pierson).

This taboo mind-bender is revealed while visiting her old-fashioned parent’s house, who find love with her dad believing her mom’s lie that she was a virgin when they married. This blows his mind and their once ideal relationship is ruined. She tells when she was a bored 18-year-old college coed, in a moment of reckless abandonment, gave her dog a blow job. It awkwardly shifts from black comedy to a stifling drama, and that not only doesn’t work but gets the entire film stuck in dog’s poop.Īmy (Melinda Page Hamilton) is an effervescent schoolteacher who is goaded into telling her nice guy aspiring writer fiancé John (Bryce Johnson) her darkest secret she never told anyone else. “Leaves us with the less than satisfying disturbing message it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie.”įormer standup comedian and veteran TV director Bobcat Goldthwait (“Shakes the Clown”) directs and writes this low-budget indie cynical rom-comedy indie that leaves us with the less than satisfying disturbing message it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie. Takahashi editor: Jason Stewart music: Gerald Brunskill cast: Melinda Page Hamilton (Amy), Bryce Johnson (John), Geoff Pierson (Dad), Colby French (Ed), Jack Plotnick (Dougie), Bonita Friedericy (Mom), Brian Posehn (Randy), Morgan Murphy (Linda), Steve Agee (Carl) Runtime: 89 MPAA Rating: R producer: Martin Pasetta Samuel Goldwyn Films 2006) SLEEPING DOGS LIE (aka: STAY) (director/writer: Bobcat Goldthwait cinematographer: Ian S.
