A Dog's Breakfast - A corpse for the dog
| Movie | |
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| German title | A Dog's Breakfast - A corpse for the dog |
| Original title | A dog's breakfast |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Hewlett |
| script | David Hewlett |
| production |
John G. Lenic , Jane Loughman |
| music | Timothy Williams |
| camera | Jim Menard |
| cut | Jason Schneider |
| occupation | |
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A Dog's Breakfast - A corpse for the dog (Original title: A Dog's Breakfast ) is a Canadian comedy film from 2006 . It is the first film for which David Hewlett - especially in his leading role as Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay is known in the series Stargate Atlantis - both wrote and directed the screenplay .
action
Patrick - played by David Hewlett - is an eccentric who lives in their house more than ten years after the death of his parents and has sold almost all of the furniture via internet auctions. As his sister Marilyn - played by Kate Hewlett (the real sister of David Hewlett) - pays a visit to his series star Ryan - played by Paul McGillion - imagine, with whom she got engaged, Patrick hits him with a cricket bat KO because Ryan snuck up behind Marilyn.
The revelation of the engagement to her brother is as problematic as Marilyn suspected. Patrick is not only annoyed, also because of the upcoming Christmas party, the preparations for which disturb him in his daily ritual, watching the spider on the gutter. In addition, he misunderstood the quotation of a text passage from Ryan's dialogue for an interview and even believes that Ryan wants to kill his sister. From then on, Patrick tries everything to protect his sister by catching Ryan first.
Ironically, however, it is an accident that apparently kills Ryan while Marilyn is talking to her brother on the phone: When Ryan tries to put up the Christmas lights, he falls unhappy from the ladder. Panicked Patrick tries everything to hide Ryan's death from his sister, to distract her with a blind date with Chris - played by Christopher Judge - and to get rid of the corpse by first burying it in the garden and later also trying in the adjacent one Sink lake. But Ryan's body keeps appearing. When Marilyn reports her Ryan to the police as missing and his aunt - also played by Paul McGillion - begins the investigation into Ryan's disappearance, eventually suspecting Marilyn, Patrick is finally exposed.
Because it looks bad for Marilyn, they both decide to cut up Ryan's corpse and feed both Mars - Patrick's dog - and the neighboring dogs. But when Patrick admits that Ryan was basically like a friend to him, Marilyn reveals her plan: She and Ryan have only faked his accidental death - and while Patrick tried again and again to get rid of Marilyn's inflatable sex doll , Ryan himself took on the role of his aunt.
Some time later, Patrick completely made friends with the idea of having a suitable brother-in-law with Ryan when his sister Elise arrives, who is not enthusiastic about Ryan and Marilyn's wedding either. When love becomes apparent between the two at first sight, the two fiancés separate them, and while Marilyn shows her future sister-in-law the house, Ryan leads his new friend to the lake nearby - with a moose penguin figure behind his back ...
production
The main shooting time of the film was in the break between two seasons of the Stargate Atlantis series. Additional scenes were shot on Saturdays during the production of the series, some of the sets could be used.
publication
The film has been shown at several film festivals, including the San Jose Film Festival and the Glastonbury Festival .
Distribution as a digital pay-per-view film began on the iTunes Store and Amazon Unbox on July 4, 2007, while the DVD for the US and Canadian markets was released on September 18 that year.
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for A Dog's Breakfast - A corpse for the dog . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2009 (PDF; test number: 116 776 V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ Exclusive interview with David Hewlett ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at film ick ( Memento from February 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Announcement of the first release as a pay-per-view film ( memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) by The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ News about the release of the RC1 DVD ( memento from June 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at GateWorld