Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

ajrg-17-381639 Picky, picky, picky. This is a great movie. I saw it twice. It takes on the question of whether you should ever lie. To make the point every character is extreme. She is a very good person and an elementary teacher. She does not want much and this is the only bad thing she has ever done in her life. Her mother is a religious Christian-very religious. Her father is very rigid and her fiancé is a waste of space but kind. Her brother is so bad it is beyond bad. She is told by everyone to be honest with her fiancé without knowing what she wants to be honest about and she is. As a result everyone hates her and she learns her lesson. In short the sum of a person is not one act but some things are better not left for the world to judge. Much better than The Invention of Lying but I loved that one too.

realreviews72 This is a movie written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait (that also happens to have the gorgeous Morgan Murphy in the cast). If you read the synopsis you will immediately think this is an out there comedy, but in actuality Goldthwait does a brilliant job turning this into a nice little film. The story is about a woman, who in college- out of boredom- 'sucked off' her dog. Years later she is in a serious relationship and struggles with telling her fiancé about her 'experience' while in college. While the two are visiting her parents, she tells him about it but is overhead by her brother who confesses the secret to the entire family. Certainly, you can imagine this is a perfect scenario to have a 'Meet the Fockers' type of comedy but it turns out to be more about how families, friends and lovers learn to accept people and choose how far truth goes. Of course, there is humor in the movie- very dark humor- but you could change her secret to be her having killed someone, or her being a prostitute, etc. and the masses would get behind this as a 'heart-warming' movie. Instead, Goldthwait, chooses a very deviant event and then tells the story of a family healing. In the three films I have seen that Goldthwait has written and directed (God Bless America, World's Greatest Dad and Sleeping Dogs Lie), he has done a brilliant job of taking an extreme deviant event and intertwining it with a mainstream story. I thought it was brilliant of Goldthwait to avoid the mainstream 'confessions' and just go for the gusto. On a side note, I seriously cannot get enough of Morgan Murphy. There seems to be some connection between Murphy and Goldthwait as she appears in all of his films- and she is certainly not best known for her acting but rather her writing.

moviesleuth2 What's your biggest secret? I'll bet you it's not as big as Amy's (Melinda Page Hilton). And as she can tell you, honesty may not be the best policy for some things. Especially when it comes to her secret.Amy (Melinda Page Hilton) is happily engaged to her boyfriend, John (Bryce Johnson), and through their conversation, he decides that they should be completely honest with each other and share their deepest secrets. Pretty soon, they're both going to wish they hadn't.Because I actually want this review to be published on IMDb, I can't disclose what she actually did (although when you look at the poster and the synopsis, it's kind of obvious...and the quote is on the film's page). It's pretty shocking, but that's about as far as the movie goes. For someone whose mind is this twisted, there could have been plenty of places for this movie to go. Yet after an occasionally funny first half, it delves into a romantic melodrama that still doesn't really work.At least the acting is solid. Melinda Page Hilton must be given credit for her courage. The content of this film requires someone who is not against taking some very big risks. It also helps that she is solid in the role. It's not Oscar worthy, but it gets the job done. Bryce Johnson is a little less successful, but he's not bad. The best performance goes to Colby French, Amy's co-worker and confidant. Of all the characters in the film, he's the one I felt for the most.Bobcat Goldthwait has a twisted mind, to be sure, but he doesn't lack the courage to do anything with this situation. This film could have been a great screwball comedy, but Goldthwait actually expects us to care about these characters and what happens to them. To an extent, I did, but not enough for the amount of time that is devoted to their dramas. The secret is shocking, but I got over it FAR sooner than the characters. Worse is his static shot selection. The film looks bland. To anyone who is not a film critic, that may not be noticeable (as a label), but everyone will know that Goldthwait really fails to draw us into the story."Sleeping Does Lie" isn't a terrible film, but it's not a very good one either. I'll just call it a "missed opportunity."

lane jarsonbeck I am not so old that I can't remember laughing at Bobcat Goldthwait a couple times. But some where in all his years of drug abuse he lost his sense of humor as well as his brain cells.From the moment this film opens you can have no sympathy nor empathy for the female lead. Neither will you find anything remotely funny after hearing the opening line. Goldthwait obviously hates himself so much that he needs to degrade in order to feel better- even if it is his own imaginary characters he degrades. If you ever saw Shakes the Clown you know how unfunny Bobcat was 15 years ago...this movie is worse. It was not even funny by accident It is sad, pathetic and a total waste of time. May Goldthwaits' hands be rendered paralyzed so he can not write another script. Strike his tongue so he can not dictate another unfunny scene. He is sad and pathetic and needs to make room for a new talent dying to get into Hollywood