Where Sleeping Dogs Lie | |
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Directed by | Charles Finch |
Screenplay by | Yolande Turner Charles Finch |
Produced by | Mario Sotela |
Starring | Dylan McDermott |
Cinematography | Miles Cook |
Edited by | Gene M. Gamache |
Music by | Mark Mancina Hans Zimmer |
Production company | Sotela Pictures |
Distributed by | August Entertainment |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Where Sleeping Dogs Lie is a 1991 American neo noir thriller film directed by Charles Finch and starring Dylan McDermott. The primary location for the film was C.E. Toberman Estate in Hollywood, a large Mediterranean-style, 22-room house built at the top of Camino Palmero in 1928 by C. E. Toberman.[1]
A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion. A psychological thriller with an aspiring writer who was recently evicted moves into a run down California mansion; an enigmatic tenant collaborates on his novel as the "real" killer of the family that the writer is writing about.[2] The writer does not like writing about "blood and guts" to have a best-seller; yet, desperation finds him moving into a house where the inhabitants were murdered by a serial killer, still-at-large, the "real killer" moves into the house as a tenant, helps write the book, then reveals that he killed the family.[3]