Sleeping Dogs Lie

A youthful indiscretion threatens to derail the relationship between an otherwise predictable young woman and her nice-guy fiancé in director Bob Goldthwait's revealing look at the high price of honesty in committed relationships. To the unassuming eye, Amy is a normal young woman with a bright ...more

In 1992, Bobcat Goldthwait made his first movie, Shakes the Clown, doing for clowns what Bad Santa would later do for department store St. Nicks. So it's not surprising that his 2006 follow-up, Sleeping Dogs Lie, was also marketed as an outrageous assault on good taste. After all, its central character fellates a dog less than two minutes into the movie -- quite tastefully, as it turns out. But Goldthwait's got a lot more on his mind than Tom Green-style gross-outs. In fact, it could be argued ...more