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SLEEPING DOGS LIE Send This Review to a Friend
How honest should you be in telling a guilty secret to your loved one? “Sleeping Dogs Lie,” written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait in a reserved manner at odds with some of his more flamboyant humor, poses this question. The secret carried by Amy (Melinda Page Hamilton) is an off-putting one to say the least. One day when she is still at school she sees her male dog lying on his back and on a whim of sexual curiosity she performs oral sex on the lucky fellow, then quickly reacts in disgust with what she had done.
The incident recedes into the past, but when her later boyfriend insists to her that he wants to know everything about her and nothing she has ever done could possibly change his love for her, Amy is reluctantly persuaded to reveal her dirty little secret. It not only changes their relationship but causes an upheaval in her family as well.
When Amy gets involved with another man, a colleague of hers at the school where she teaches, he makes the same request that she tell all about herself as he loves her so much he wants to know everything. Has Amy learned from experience? And if you have any guilty secrets, are they safely concealed?
Once you get over the shock of what Amy has done, the film is often quite funny as well as nicely acted, including by Hamilton, Bryce Johnson, Colby French and others in the cast. And its questioning of how far truthfulness should go in a relationship can be applied to situations a lot less damning than Amy’s. A Samuel Goldwyn release.
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