Check out IMDb's Streaming Guide to see what's new on Netflix, find out if your favorite streaming show has been renewed or canceled, and more.
Related lists from IMDb users
Title: How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kenneth Branagh | ... | Peter McGowen | |
| Robin Wright | ... | Melanie McGowen (as Robin Wright Penn) | |
| Suzi Hofrichter | ... | Amy Walsh | |
| Lynn Redgrave | ... | Edna | |
| Jared Harris | ... | False Peter | |
| Peter Riegert | ... | Larry | |
| David Krumholtz | ... | Brian Sellars | |
| Johnathon Schaech | ... | Adam | |
| Kaitlin Hopkins | ... | Victoria | |
| Suzy Joachim | ... | Allana | |
| Brett Rickaby | ... | Janitor | |
| Lucinda Jenney | ... | Trina Walsh | |
 |
Derek Kellock | ... | Amy's Father |
| Stacy Hogue | ... | Babysitter | |
| Peri Gilpin | ... | Debra Salhany | |
Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is an L.A. playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility, a stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him, neighbors have a new dog that barks all night; his wife wants to have a child, and he does not: he's become impotent. He's working on a new play when a single mom moves in next door with her 8-year-old daughter. His wife immediately invites the girl into the McGowan household. Will this child stir Peter's paternal feelings? Will she also help him get his dialogue right? And what of his doppelganger and the neighbor's dog? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Explore popular action and adventure titles available to stream with Prime Video.
Wow, what a great movie. I had to talk a friend into seeing it, and we knew nothing about it. We were not disappointed at all. It takes a little while to get rolling, but once it does, the dialogue is wittier than anything Hollywood will ever churn out. It is refreshing to see a movie that doesn't play to the lowest common denominator. The acting was perfectly executed, and the writing was some of the best this year. Robin Wright-Penn was at her best, especially in an emotionally intense argument between her and Brannagh over remarks he made to the neighbor. And Brannagh was definitely in his element here, with some wonderfully razor-sharp dialogue that he executed perfectly. There was a handicapped child that was a bit contrived and predictable, but she was a wonderful actor and her role in the plot kept it from being trite. You just don't see writing this good in Hollywood. That fact would just boil inside you as you watch this and realize that it will never get a wide theatrical release. That is until an hysterical interview of the author (Brannagh) unfolds throughout the film. The comments he makes to the interviewer (Ros from Frasier) make light of Hollywood's blindness to anything that is not ignorant drivel and send you from the theater with a great feeling that all hope is not lost. You may have to look around, but you can still find an intelligent movie. And this is one of them.