How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

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Overview

The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.

Genres

General Information

Release Date: 2002-02-22
Budget: $7300000
Revenue: $0
Runtime: 107 min

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