How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog is a 2000 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Michael Kalesniko and produced by Michael Nozik, Nancy M. Ruff and Brad Weston. The film stars Kenneth Branagh as Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. His latest play is in the hands of effeminate director Brian Sellars , who is obsessed with Petula Clark; his wife Melanie is determined to have a baby; he finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's... lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger who claims to be Peter McGowan and develops a friendship of sorts with him. Petula Clark's recordings of "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love" and "A Groovy Kind of Love" were heard during the opening and closing credits respectively, and "Downtown 99", a disco remix of her 1964 classic "Downtown", was heard during a party scene.
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| Release date: | February 22, 2002 |
| Directed by: | Michael Kalesniko |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Producer: | Michael Nozik, Brad Weston, Nancy M. Ruff |
| Editor: | Pamela Martin |
| Music by: | David Robbins |
| Cinematography: | Hubert Taczanowski |
| Screenplay by: | Michael Kalesniko |
| Genre: | Comedy |