The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 63% approval rating with an average rating of 6.2/10 based on 52 reviews. Bobcat Goldthwait ( uncredited) as Roy Orbison.Amy decides to go with the lie, thus "letting sleeping dogs lie." Ed thinks he's discovered Amy's secret: she was pregnant and engaged to John, but got an abortion and her parents were incensed. As it doesn't work out between Ed and his wife, he and Amy become a couple. Some time later, Ed and his wife are trying to work things out and Amy realizes her feelings for Ed. He instantly begins to blame Amy, who leaves quickly before Ed can figure out what Dougie is trying to say. Amy and Ed visit Dougie in prison to inform him of their mother's death. With the help of her co-worker Ed, Amy finds a new apartment and begins a relationship with Ed after he learns that his wife has been cheating on him.Īfter Amy's mother dies of an aneurysm, Amy returns home and reconciles with her father, who gives her a letter her mother had written her prior to her death. She shacks up with Linda and her boyfriend Carl, but leaves due to their noisy lovemaking. Despite all their attempts to fix things, one night while drunk, John calls her a "dog-blowing cunt" and Amy decides to leave. Once back, Amy and John's relationship is strained. Amy and John leave as her father will not speak to her and her mother says that she is ashamed. The next morning, Dougie, Amy's drug addict brother who had overheard the conversation, spills the beans at the breakfast table and, much to her parents' shock, Amy admits that he is right. On a trip to her parents' house, Amy finally relents to John's badgering and tells him. When John suggests complete honesty, Amy lies and tells him that she had a lesbian experience with her best friend Linda. Eight years later, she lives a seemingly ordinary life as a schoolteacher and is engaged to nice-guy John. The soundtrack features "You Got It" by Roy Orbison, who actually figures prominently in the rather twisted but charming plot.In college, 18-year-old Amy impulsively gave her dog, Rufus, oral sex. The supporting cast is excellent, including a wry turn by comedian Brian Posehn as Randy, Dougie's drug-addled dealer, who has a crush on Amy. Goldthwait has written and directed a very funny, very poignant film, one that looks seriously at the meaning and importance of truth and honesty-and when it is okay to keep some things to oneself. Amy, a teacher, finds solace in Ed (Colby French), a coworker going through his own marital problems, but everyone else has abandoned her. Her rather strange mother (a very funny Bonita Friedericy) and hunk of a father (Geoff Pierson) won't speak to her her drug-addicted loser of a brother, Dougie (Jack Plotnick), revels in her failure and agony and John is not sure he can spend the rest of his life with someone who has committed such an outrageous act, even if it was a silly mistake that she regrets. When she finally does, her entire world comes crashing down. Eight years later, as her relationship with John (Bryce Johnson) intensifies, she considers telling him what she did, as he believes in total honesty. Melinda Page Hamilton gives a terrific lead performance as Amy, a young woman with a deep, dark secret, something very stupid that she did in college. Bobcat Goldthwait, the frantic, shrieking comedian who gained fame in several POLICE ACADEMY films, follows up his debut feature as a writer-director-1992's SHAKES THE CLOWN-with SLEEPING DOGS LIE, a surprisingly tender romantic black comedy.
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