Where Sleeping Dogs Lie

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Where Sleeping Dogs Lie
Theatrical release poster
Directed byCharles Finch
Screenplay byYolande Turner
Charles Finch
Produced byMario Sotela
StarringDylan McDermott
CinematographyMiles Cook
Edited byGene M. Gamache
Music byMark Mancina
Hans Zimmer
Production
company
Sotela Pictures
Distributed byAugust Entertainment
Release dates
  • November 13, 1991 (1991-11-13) (Santa Barbara Film Festival)
  • June 18, 1993 (1993-06-18) (United States)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie is a 1991 American neo noir thriller film directed by Charles Finch and starring Dylan McDermott. The primary location for the film was C.E. Toberman Estate in Hollywood, a large Mediterranean-style, 22-room house built at the top of Camino Palmero in 1928 by C. E. Toberman.[1]

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A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion. A psychological thriller with an aspiring writer who was recently evicted moves into a run down California mansion; an enigmatic tenant collaborates on his novel as the "real" killer of the family that the writer is writing about.[2] The writer does not like writing about "blood and guts" to have a best-seller; yet, desperation finds him moving into a house where the inhabitants were murdered by a serial killer, still-at-large, the "real killer" moves into the house as a tenant, helps write the book, then reveals that he killed the family.[3]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Wallace, David. (December 30, 1990) Los Angeles Times They Won't Let 'Sleeping Dogs' Lie. Section: CA-Calendar; Page 31.
  2. ^ Hart, John. The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California · Friday, February 26, 1993. Page 117
  3. ^ Zion, Lawrie. The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria, Australia · Thursday, November 02, 1995. Page 56

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