Dog Park (1998)

Director:

Bruce McCulloch

Writer:

Bruce McCulloch (writer)

Release Date:

24 September 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

down boy

Plot:

Sex comedy takes a look at contemporary dating mores and hypothesizes that the new dating location may be the dog walk in the park...

Plot Keywords:

Dog | Vomit | Video Store | Female Rear Nudity | Dog Sniffing Crotch

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Natasha Henstridge	...	Lorna
Luke Wilson	...	Andy
Kathleen Robertson	...	Cheryl
Janeane Garofalo	...	Jeri
Bruce McCulloch	...	Jeff
Kristin Lehman	...	Keiran
Amie Carey	...	Rachel
Gordon Currie	...	Trevor
Harland Williams	...	Callum
Mark McKinney	...	Dr. Cavan, Dog Psychologist
Peter MacNeill	...	Neighbor
Albert Schultz	...	Male Dog Owner #2
Jerry Schaefer	...	Norm
Zachary Bennett	...	Dougie
Ron James	...	Male Dog Owner #1

Also Known As:

Réservé aux chiens (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated R for sexuality and language.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Singapore:M18 | Germany:12 | USA:R | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Accent Entertainment Corporation

Trivia:

In one scene in the movie, Andy goes into a bar with a bicycle wheel, saying that someone had stolen the rest of his bike. Director and co-star Bruce McCulloch once performed a skit on "Kids in the Hall" where he played a man whose bicycle wheel had been stolen, but the rest of the bike had been left behind.

Quotes:

Lorna: You're not one of those guys who yaps about love and brings up his ex-girlfriend and then goes AWOL, are you?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in WildCat (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Bound With The Massive

Some of these reviewers should join Critics Anonymous

Jeez, I think I saw a different movie. Let's see.....nope, it WAS "Dog Park."

Apparently we have a whole class of film students here who were given the assignment, "Pan a Film and Get Your Review Published" and IMDb was the only place that would put them in print.

Dog Park is fine. It's nice. It's even intriguing. Its humor is low key, except where it's laugh-out-loud, which was in several places when I saw it (25 yr. old black woman and 50 yr. old white guy, 15 rows apart, the only 2 in the theater; we laughed at different parts, but we laughed).

Luke Wilson is terrific, a curious blend of David Duchoveny and Bill Pullman. I'll go to his next movie. Natasha Henstridge can actually act! Brava!

OK, so it's not an Oscar contender. I go into a theater to enjoy a movie, not to trash it, and I enjoyed this one just fine.