How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog Review by Zara (5 Stars)

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Starring:
Kenneth Branagh, Robin Wright Penn, Lynn Redgrave, Jared Harris, Peter Riegert, David Krumholtz, Johnathon Schaech, Kaitlin Hopkins, Suzy Joachim, Lucinda Jenney, Peri Gilpin, Tamala Jones, Benita Ha, Mark Brandon, Markus Redmond, Doug Abrahams, Ty Olsson, Fred Ewanuick, Robert Saunders, Jay Brazeau, Merrilyn Gann, Enuka Okuma, Michael Benyaer, Michael Roberds, Michael Kalesniko, Daniel Stern

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)

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Movie Review by Zara

March 17th, 2008

Favorite Movie Quote: "I'm not an alcoholic. Alcoholics have class. I'm a f*cking drunk."

Oh... My... Dog...

If you've ever been a fan of Kenneth Branagh, this is the movie for you. Perhaps it's because this is one of those movies where he gave himself a break and just does the acting instead of the writing and directing, but his performance is something for us acerbic, annoyed and just plain irritated with the complacent people in life to enjoy and revel in.

The film is full of people that you know of, from Peter Riegert as the buddy who asks what time of day it is before declaring that he's drunk already, to David Krumholtz as the gay stage director who sings showtunes when he's frustrated rather than getting angry to pretty boy Johnathon Schaech who plays a Method Actor who you gleefully get to watch get punched in the nose. (I've always harbored a desire to do that to him, I don't know why.)

Branagh is married to Robin Wright Penn, a almost too accepting wife who wants to have children and cheerfully looks after her mother (an almost unrecognizable Lynn Redgrave) who is suffering from dementia. Branagh can't manage to find another hit within him, is suffering from his annual bout of insomnia, exacerbated by the neighbor's new dog who barks all night because there's a man wandering around the neighborhood pretending to be him (Branagh, and he's played by the outstanding Jared Harris, who you should look up and rent everything he's ever been in because he's f*cking outstanding).

The film is filled with quotable lines, heart, cynicism, truth, love, honesty.

And a great interview scene between Branagh and Peri Gilpin playing a morning show host (kinda like Meredith Viera) where things... well, they kind of break down.

I really loved this flick. On so many levels for so many reasons. Please take the time to watch it.

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