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. Aside from Hamilton’s good performance, this one is a dog.In college, 18-year-old Amy impulsively gave her dog, Rufus, oral sex. The film makes a big deal about it being better to keep one’s dark secrets hidden from others than to tell the truth, but never makes that sleazy bit funny or meaningful. When Ed fishes around for Amy’s dark secret, we are led to wonder if the wounded girl would again be so frank. Poor Amy leaves in tears, only to go on the rebound and have an affair with older colleague Ed (Colby French), whose wife is cheating on him. It works, as her parents withdraw their love. 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.
SLEEPING DOGS LIE 2006 TV
“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.