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Tarfumes.com - Lie Down With Dogs
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List Price: $9.99
Our Price: $2.99
Your Save: $ 7.00 ( 70% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Wendy Adams, Randy Becker, Martha J. Cooney, Darren Dryden, Ty-Ranne Grimstad
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303920726
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6303920721
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: 1997-04-15
Running Time: 84
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1995-07-28
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Editorial Reviews:
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This low-budget independent feature from 1995 is notable for its whimsical lack of substance and its self-effacing sense of humor. Writer-director Wally White plays Tommy, a gay man from New York City who flees the urban crush for the promise of an idyllic summer in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Working as a houseboy, Tommy encounters various characters as he navigates the seemingly carefree gay community, leading a Candide-like existence, betrayed by employers and friends alike, and always coming up short in friendship and in love. Randy Becker (Love! Valour! Compassion!) plays a con artist who takes advantage of the good-natured Tommy, and Darren Dryden plays the shallow and unattainable object of Tommy's affection. While the film, White's feature debut, is short on meaning or resonance, the vignette feel of the story allows for a few choice comic moments. The film is surprisingly well made for a low-budget effort. All in all, Lie Down with Dogs is an offbeat diversion and a slice of life not often seen on the screen. --Robert Lane
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Customer Rating:
Summary: God Awful
Comment: This is far and away the worst gay-themed movie I have ever seen. The film is intercut with the lead character laying there shirtless speaking to the camera with his hands up over his head, and all the while we can see his underarm hair in soggy, knotted clumps. If that isn't enough, he's butt ugly. Truly gross.
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Summary: Go Lay Down!
Comment: "Woof woof bark bark ruff ruff woof woof yap bark bark." What Rover is trying to tell us is that when you Lie Down With Dogs, you get fleas. Neuter it before it reproduces!
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Summary: Go get yourself a hartz 2 in 1 flea collar for this film.
Comment: This little film is a bit different. It is a cross between a documentary and an adventure or road movie. It is pretty well done and I really can't complain about the quality in sound, video, clarity, casting and so on. All those things are quite good. I was a little bored with this one. It struggles to hold your attention long enough to get it's message out. It does however have a great ending which is a very nice change. There are a lot of guys in it, several of which were very pleasing to the eyes. The content is a bit discouraging as it focuses on the night life and a whole lot too much so. This is a slut film to put it as nicely as possible. It's all about one guys journey to the fast paced, one night stand after another all summer long in the ultimate gay party spot of Provincetown. He is looking for fun, or so he thinks, but he might just find something a whole lot more satisfying within his own heart. This guy has a problem being majorly shallow. The film is not all that immune from the same disorder, but both seem to make an amazing recovery in the end. In fact, the film makes a nice point in the ending if you can stay with it long enough to get that far. It's got some low spots to endure, but this film really does have a few high spot that make it worth watching. While most of the content is not my personal cup of tea and some of it was just not really worth watching at all for me, I can't honestly say it's a bad film. It's not by any means a blockbuster, and not one I will be watching over and over again. I would recommend this one to a select group of gays who are into the party life of sex and drugs. Those will find it most entertaining. If you are not into that sort of thing, You, as I, will be more comfortable watching something else. There are a whole lot better movies out there to choose from in my humble opinion. Nevertheless, I give this one three stars. One for the quality, one for casting and acting, and the other for the ending which doesn't just leave you hanging and feeling like you got nothing at all out of your time viewing it. I would recommend a lot of other films over this one, BUT if you are determined to watch it, just keep expectations low, and consider your own feelings about the subject matter.
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Summary: stupid, dumb, non-sense!!!
Comment: What the hell is this movie?!? If I want to watch Randy Becker I would go for Love! Valour! Compassion! instead of this movie!!!
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Summary: fun in the summer sun
Comment: The latest critics (or whatever they consider themselves) provide an unjust and almost vitriolic view of this playful, not-to-be taken-seriously movie that nonetheless hides the truth of many of our (your) lives and fantasies. Wally White has achieved a splendid little essay on stereotypes (how hated they are!) and situations (how true they may be!) and has done so cheerfully and from the inside, not as an outsider looking in to damn; criticism of the our lifestyle there is (and it does apply in more cases than the self-styled critics would like to admit) but it is always tongue-in-cheek, fun, robust, playful, outrageous (even if often true, and I have seen it); and the new-wave gay, with his ultra-modern platforms who does not recognize the "truth" underlying this charade is merely self-deceptive and egotistical.
The movie is a little treasure of fun and frolic and should be taken for no more and treasured for no less. And its detractors should look a little more deeply into themselves before condemning it.
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