Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 03/02/2004
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
Former
Kids In The Hall member
Bruce McCulloch wrote and directed this comedy about the romantic tribulations of a group of Toronto twenty-somethings whose relationships with their dogs are more stable and long-lasting than their romances with people. Nice guy Andy (
Luke Wilson) gets dumped by his girlfriend Cheryl (
Kathleen Robertson) when she meets another man (
Gordon Currie); worst of all, Cheryl also ends up with custody of Andy's dog. On the rebound, Andy meets Lorna (
Natasha Henstridge), the host of a children's TV show, but she's too obsessed with her dog Peanut to pay Andy much mind. Keiran (
Kristin Lehman), on the other hand, is a bit too enthusiastic for Andy, leading to yet another short-lived relationship. Cheryl ends up taking her dog (formerly Andy's dog) to a pet psychiatrist (
Mark McKinney) who thinks that her promiscuity may be traumatizing the pooch. Meanwhile,
Bruce McCulloch and
Janeane Garofalo are cast against type as Jeff and Jeri, Andy's cheerful and annoyingly romantic friends. Although it was completed in 1998,
Dog Park's U.S. release was delayed until September 1999 due to the film's sale to
New Line Cinema; as a result,
Bruce McCulloch's directorial debut hit theaters only a month before the scheduled release of his second film,
Superstar.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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