Where Sleeping Dogs Lie

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie is a 1991 American neo noir thriller film directed by Charles Finch and starring Dylan McDermott, Tom Sizemore, and Sharon Stone. 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]

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie
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Directed byCharles Finch
Written by
Produced byMario Sotela
Starring
CinematographyMiles Cook
Edited byGene M. Gamache
Music by
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Sotela Pictures
Distributed by
Release dates
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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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]

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References

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  1. ^ Wallace, David. (December 30, 1990) Los Angeles Times They Won't Let 'Sleeping Dogs' Lie. Section: CA-Calendar; Page 31.
  2. ^ Hart, John. The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California · Friday, February 26, 1993. Page 117
  3. ^ Zion, Lawrie. The Age. Melbourne, Victoria, Victoria, Australia · Thursday, November 02, 1995. Page 56
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