How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) on Netflix
Peter McGowan, a British playwright in Los Angeles, is ten years into failed productions and cannot sleep. His wife wants a baby, and a stranger walks the neighborhood claiming to be him.
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Plot summary
Peter McGowan's string of hits as a playwright is ten years behind him, and the failed productions since have left him chain-smoking and sleepless in Los Angeles. His mother-in-law, Edna, is slipping into senility, his wife Melanie wants a child, and the neighbors' new dog barks through the night. His latest play sits with Brian Sellars, who is obsessed with Petula Clark. When a single mother and her eight-year-old daughter, Amy, who has mild cerebral palsy, move in next door, Melanie brings the girl into the McGowan household and Peter finds himself drawn to her. On his late-night walks he meets a stranger who claims to be Peter McGowan.
Cast
- Suzi Hofrichteras Amy Walsh
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
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- Petula Clark's "Downtown 99", a disco remix of her 1964 hit "Downtown", plays during a party scene, and her recordings of "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love" and "A Groovy Kind of Love" are heard over the opening and closing credits.
