Lie Down With Dogs
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| director = Wally White
| writer = Wally White
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| producer = Carijn Lau
Jennifer Ryan Cohen
Eli Kabillio
Wally White
| starring = Wally White
Bash Halow
James Sexton
Darren Dryden
Ty-Ranne Grimstad
Randy Becker
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| cinematography = George Mitas
| editing = Hart F. Faber
| music = Jellybean Benitez
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| distributor = Miramax
| released = {{Film date|1995}}
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
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Lie Down With Dogs is a 1995 directorial debut comedy feature film written, directed, produced and starring Wally White.{{cite web|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/28/movies/film-review-gay-and-idle-in-a-summer-on-cape-cod.html|title=FILM REVIEW; Gay and Idle In a Summer On Cape Cod|authorlink=Caryn James|author=James, Caryn|date=July 28, 1995|access-date=March 10, 2025|page=C5|archive-date=October 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006135328/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/28/movies/film-review-gay-and-idle-in-a-summer-on-cape-cod.html|url-status=live}}
The film was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and was distributed by Miramax.
Plot
Tommie, a gay New Yorker, travels to Provincetown for a vacation with the philosophy, "Be gay, let the guilt go."
Critical reception
Variety wrote "Certainly "Dogs" is no "Longtime Companion," but in his eagerness to please, White has come up with an amateurish, slapdash pic that is, frankly, pretty boring," adding "White delivers an eager, amiable screen persona, but hardly anyone else in the cast registers."{{cite web|magazine=Variety|author=Stratton, David|url=https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/lie-down-with-dogs-1200440621/|title=Lie Down With Dogs|date=February 19, 1995|access-date=March 10, 2025|archive-date=December 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241229003019/https://variety.com/1995/film/reviews/lie-down-with-dogs-1200440621/|url-status=live}}
Caryn James of The New York Times said ""Lie Down With Dogs" resembles a film-school exercise, an apprentice work filled with pseudo-arty visual images and humor that strains to be clever," and in regards to director Wally White's lead performance "As Tommie, Mr. White talks straight into the camera, but he is an unnatural actor."
Conversely, Kevin Thomas from the Los Angeles Times called Lie Down With Dogs "A bittsweet awakening," writing "In his wry, jaunty “Lie Down With Dogs,” Wally White immediately dispenses with the twin expectations of gay filmmakers: to be politically correct and/or pornographic."{{cite web|author=Thomas, Kevin|title=MOVIE REVIEW : 'Dogs': A Bittersweet Awakening|website=Los Angeles Times |date=July 28, 1995|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-07-28-ca-28844-story.html}}
SFGate in its review also described Lie Down With Dogs as a "jaunty, low-budget first feature," and that lead actor Wally White "has a bubbly juvenile appeal as the restless Tommie."{{cite web|work=SFGate|title="Lie Down With Dogs' is a frolic|author=Shulgasser, Barbara|date=July 14, 1995|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lie-Down-With-Dogs-is-a-frolic-3140321.php}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.miramax.com/movie/lie-down-with-dogs/}}
- {{imdb title|0113650}}
Category:American independent films
Category:American comedy films
Category:1995 directorial debut films
Category:1995 LGBTQ-related films
Category:American LGBTQ-related films
Category:Films set in New York (state)
Category:Films set in Massachusetts
Category:Films set in the 1990s
Category:Films shot in New York (state)
Category:Films shot in Massachusetts
Category:LGBTQ-related comedy films
Category:1990s English-language films
Category:English-language comedy films
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