Sleeping dogs lie 2006
The website's consensus reads, "Though Sleeping Dogs Lie treats its subject and characters humanely, it's unable to overcome the low-budget production and Bobcat Goldthwait's pedestrian directing. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 63% approval rating with an average rating of 6.2/10 based on 52 reviews.
Amy decides to go with the lie, thus "letting sleeping dogs lie." Ed thinks he's discovered Amy's secret: she was pregnant and engaged to John, but got an abortion and her parents were incensed. As it doesn't work out between Ed and his wife, he and Amy become a couple. Some time later, Ed and his wife are trying to work things out and Amy realizes her feelings for Ed. Melinda Page Hamilton during 'Sleeping Dogs Lie' Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals at Arclight Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, United States. He instantly begins to blame Amy, who leaves quickly before Ed can figure out what Dougie is trying to say. Melinda Page Hamilton during 2006 Sundance Film Festival - 'Stay' Portraits at HP Portrait Studio in Park City, Utah, United States. Amy and Ed visit Dougie in prison to inform him of their mother's death. With the help of her co-worker Ed, Amy finds a new apartment and begins a relationship with Ed after he learns that his wife has been cheating on him.Īfter Amy's mother dies of an aneurysm, Amy returns home and reconciles with her father, who gives her a letter her mother had written her prior to her death.
She shacks up with Linda and her boyfriend Carl, but leaves due to their noisy lovemaking. Despite all their attempts to fix things, one night while drunk, John calls her a "dog-blowing cunt" and Amy decides to leave. Once back, Amy and John's relationship is strained. Amy and John leave as her father will not speak to her and her mother says that she is ashamed. The next morning, Dougie, Amy's drug addict brother who had overheard the conversation, spills the beans at the breakfast table and, much to her parents' shock, Amy admits that he is right. On a trip to her parents' house, Amy finally relents to John's badgering and tells him. When John suggests complete honesty, Amy lies and tells him that she had a lesbian experience with her best friend Linda.
Eight years later, she lives a seemingly ordinary life as a schoolteacher and is engaged to nice-guy John. Fueled by a standout lead performance by Melinda Page Hamilton, peopled with well-drawn characters, and infused with Goldthwait's very special sensibilities, this sparkling comedy underscores the truism that it doesn't take money to make a film that everyone wants to see.In college, 18-year-old Amy impulsively gave her dog, Rufus, oral sex.
Outlandishly fun, edgy but centered, and sure to be one of the most talked-about films at the Festival, this is independent filmmaking at its best: raw, original, and edifying. In building on its premise by frankly probing our relationships and idealization of the virtues of absolute honesty, Stay becomes as perceptive a romantic comedy as you will see this year. Longtime comic Bob Goldthwait has directed a wonderfully perverse tale that adeptly explores honesty, family, forgiveness, and courage. But her fiancé has suggested that the couple be completely honest and tell each other everything! When Amy finally relents, encouraged to tell the truth by her coworker and mother (neither of whom really knows what she has to disclose), and reveals her secret, all hell breaks loose. An impulsive sexual encounter from her past haunts Amy, an otherwise seemingly normal young woman with a bright future and nice-guy fiancé.