The story of 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. 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.
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog has generally received positive reviews.
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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog was released in 2002 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 69 reviews, giving How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002) an average rating of 61%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 57%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog than critics were.
With a score of 61%, How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2002, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2002 with similar scores include films like Austin Powers in Goldmember, K-19: The Widowmaker and The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
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