Lie Down With Dogs

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Lie Down With Dogs
Directed byWally White
Written byWally White
Produced byCarijn Lau
Jennifer Ryan Cohen
Eli Kabillio
Wally White
StarringWally White
Bash Halow
James Sexton
Darren Dryden
Ty-Ranne Grimstad
Randy Becker
CinematographyGeorge Mitas
Edited byHart F. Faber
Music by Jellybean Benitez
Distributed by Miramax
Release date
  • 1995 (1995)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Lie Down With Dogs is a 1995 directorial debut comedy feature film written, directed, produced and starring Wally White. [1]

Contents

The film was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and was distributed by Miramax. [2]

Plot

Tommie, a gay New Yorker, travels to Provincetown for a vacation with the philosophy, "Be gay, let the guilt go." [2]

Critical reception

Variety wrote "Certainly "Dogs" is no "Longtime Companion," but in his eagerness to please, White has come up with an amateurish, slapdash pic that is, frankly, pretty boring," adding "White delivers an eager, amiable screen persona, but hardly anyone else in the cast registers." [2]

Caryn James of The New York Times said ""Lie Down With Dogs" resembles a film-school exercise, an apprentice work filled with pseudo-arty visual images and humor that strains to be clever," and in regards to director Wally White's lead performance "As Tommie, Mr. White talks straight into the camera, but he is an unnatural actor." [1]

Conversely, Kevin Thomas from the Los Angeles Times called Lie Down With Dogs "A bittsweet awakening," writing "In his wry, jaunty “Lie Down With Dogs,” Wally White immediately dispenses with the twin expectations of gay filmmakers: to be politically correct and/or pornographic." [3]

SFGate in its review also described Lie Down With Dogs as a "jaunty, low-budget first feature," and that lead actor Wally White "has a bubbly juvenile appeal as the restless Tommie." [4]

References

  1. 1 2 James, Caryn (July 28, 1995). "FILM REVIEW; Gay and Idle In a Summer On Cape Cod". The New York Times . p. C5. Archived from the original on October 6, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Stratton, David (February 19, 1995). "Lie Down With Dogs". Variety . Archived from the original on December 29, 2024. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  3. ↑ Thomas, Kevin (July 28, 1995). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Dogs': A Bittersweet Awakening". Los Angeles Times .
  4. ↑ Shulgasser, Barbara (July 14, 1995). ""Lie Down With Dogs' is a frolic". SFGate .


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