Where Sleeping Dogs Lie
| Where Sleeping Dogs Lie | |
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| Directed by | Charles Finch |
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| Produced by | Mario Sotela |
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| Cinematography | Miles Cook |
| Edited by | Gene M. Gamache |
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Production company | Sotela Pictures |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie is a 1991 American neo noir thriller film directed by Charles Finch and starring Dylan McDermott, Tom Sizemore, and Sharon Stone. 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]
Plot
[edit]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]
Cast
[edit]- Dylan McDermott as Bruce Simmons
- Charles Finch as Evan Best
- Sharon Stone as Serena Black
- Ron Karabatsos as Stan Reeb
- Tom Sizemore as Eddie Hale
- Mary Woronov as Woman Tourist
- David Q Combs as Man Tourist
- Vanna Bonta as Serena's Secretary
- Elizabeth Whitcraft as Serena's Secretary (as Liza Whitcraft)
- Phoebe Stone as Little Girl
- Shawne Rowe as Telegram Clown
- Richard Zavaglia as Detective Clifton
- Jillian McWhirter as Dol Whitney
- Brett Cullen as John Whitney
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wallace, David. (December 30, 1990) Los Angeles Times They Won't Let 'Sleeping Dogs' Lie. Section: CA-Calendar; Page 31.
- ^ Hart, John. The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California · Friday, February 26, 1993. Page 117
- ^ Zion, Lawrie. The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria, Australia · Thursday, November 02, 1995. Page 56
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