House prevents this from happening, naturally, and the liver-transplant from the girlfriend to the patient was successful. While House tries to manipulate the patient's girlfriend into saving her dying girlfriend's life depsite the fact that she'll be leaving her soon, Cameron is worried about the ethical issues and generally wants the truth to come out for whatever purpose (or just to prove a point to Foreman, or something). Cameron disagrees, but is of course proven wrong then there goes the neighborhood. And then House makes a profile of their young patient, suggesting that she is going to leave her girlfriend. This time, however, they are unsure of what the actual diagnosis is for this particular case.
Anywho, the Ducklings try many testings to figure out the causes of the patient's illness. Unfortunately there's some bickering drama between Cameron and Foreman, which I will get to shortly, so the screentime on them is somewhat distracting (of course, wanting Foreman to PWN Cameron totally is worth it). This is where House and the Ducklings come into play. Frantically, the girlfriend calls for help. She had apparently taken an entire bottle of sleeping pills.and yet is still awake, and banging her head against the wall. Her girlfriend, who had been sleeping soundly in their bed, awakes the next morning to find the restless young woman collapsed on the floor in the kitchen. The entire beginning sequence has this young woman awake in bed, wide-eyed and looking as though she's about to have a mental breakdown.
Unfortunately, there is little merit in Where Sleeping Dogs Lie to recommend it -while Pierson may have wished for this to be an intriguing format for the film to take, the execution frustrates rather than fascinates.The Medical Case: The Nightmare on Elm Street SyndromĪfter a young woman is diagnosed with a sleeping disorder as she hasn't slept in nearly ten days, House is immediately signed up for the case as his morbid intrigue with these sorts of situations. Tracy, arguably the axel around which the plot revolves is given little characterisation beyond several gratuitous shots and not even named until an hour and fifteen into the hour and a half film. Another low point is the treatment of the female characters that are sparsely littered throughout and then invariably and suddenly killed off for little reason other than to advance the limping plot. Any dramatic or comedic beats that were present in the script are lost as the main trio spend the majority of the film shouting their lines at each other with little variation in delivery. The rest of cast, while working with an uneven script, are all Acting with the dial turned all the way up to eleven. Jeff is perhaps the only character that has any significant backstory -heavily in debt to a gangster ironically named Bunny (Atim Udoffia)-and therefore the only person who the audience is mildly invested in, but again this interest is lost due to the structural format. With the exception of one revelation that comes late in the second act, the non-linear structure does little to advance the overall appeal of the film. The narrative then flits, seemingly at random, between the present and the past in order to fill in the gaps but does so in such a disordered way that by the time Jeff and Barry meet up in a bar to discuss it, the audience is already aware of their relationship and further expansion on their individual situations seems entirely pointless. In a bid to avoid non-stop exposition throughout the first act of the film, writer-director Josh Pierson moves between the crime itself and the build-up -opening with Jeff detachedly spouting a Reservoir Dogs-esqe monologue about obesity and America to a fed-up waitress, before cutting to him, bleeding heavily from a broken nose in the kitchen of the house they are attempting to rob. Along with ‘the tag-along’ Tim (Tommy Koponen) the plan is simple: get into the house, find the stacks of cash that he has hidden away, and get out without anyone noticing. Except, as is the way, nothing goes to plan and soon the three men are left with a bloodied hostage and his wife Tracy (Jillian Rohrbach) tied up and a decided lack of money.īilled as a dark, dramatic comedy, Where Sleeping Dogs Lie does little to live up to any of the descriptors, spiralling from one melodramatic moment to the next with nothing substantial to connect the two.
When Jeff (Jesse Janzen) and Barry (Dustin Miller), two brothers whose shared criminal past has spit them out on two different paths, decide to make some quick money by robbing local businessman Bob in the middle of a messy divorce, they expect a quick and easy payoff. 0 ‘Where Sleeping Dogs Lie’ Tries to Be Clever But Instead Just Falls Flat 1091 Media.
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