A Dog's Breakfast (2007) on Netflix
PG-1320071h 28mComedyDramaHorrorThriller
Patrick lives in his parents' house with his dog Mars. His sister Marilyn brings home Ryan, a television star she plans to marry, and Patrick decides the engagement has to end.
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Plot summary
Shortly before Christmas, Marilyn comes to the house where her brother Patrick lives to introduce Ryan, an actor in a science fiction television series. Patrick knocks Ryan out with a cricket bat by accident, and only afterward learns that his younger sister and Ryan are engaged, which shocks him. Patrick is single and has stayed on in his parents' house in the ten years since their deaths, with his dog Mars for company. He and Marilyn have long had a combative relationship. He sets out to drive a wedge between the couple, cannot manage it, and reaches for sharper instruments.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Dog's Breakfast (2007)
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- The science fiction show invented inside the film, Starcrossed, was created as a tribute to Stargate; after people told David Hewlett it should be real, he pitched it to NBC Universal and the Sci Fi Channel, which bought the pilot.
- David Hewlett wrote the script around the availabilities of those involved, which made it possible to produce A Dog's Breakfast for a total budget of $120,000, mostly privately raised.
- David Hewlett had planned to shoot at his own house in Washington, but legal problems over its U.S. location forced the otherwise Canadian production to rent a house near Burnaby, British Columbia instead.
- The Starcrossed spacecraft set in the film is also used on Stargate, where it stands in for several spaceships including the Daedalus-class battlecruisers and the Prometheus.
- Inspired by The Long Tail, David Hewlett set up a YouTube channel and his own producer blog for $8 a month to keep promotion costs down, a campaign he called Squirrel Marketing.
- David Hewlett considered Christopher Judge for the role of the "Internet-dating loser" because Judge seemed so inappropriate for the part that Hewlett thought it would be very funny to have him play it.
