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Lawn Dogs (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Montreal World Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
John Duigan

Written By:
Naomi Wallace

Actors:
Mischa Barton ..... Devon Stockard
Sam Rockwell ..... Trent
Christopher McDonald ..... Morton Stockard
Kathleen Quinlan ..... Clare Stockard
Miles Meehan ..... Billy
Bruce McGill ..... Nash
David Barry Gray ..... Brett
Eric Mabius ..... Sean Torrance
Angie Harmon ..... Pamela 'Pam' Gregory
José Orlando Araque ..... Salvador the Mailman
Beth Grant ..... Trent's Mother
Tom Aldredge ..... Jake - Trent's Father
Odin the Dog ..... Tracker
Tafeki the Dog ..... Tracker

Synopsis:

Acclaimed drama from director John Duigan, starring Sam Rockwell and Mischa Barton. Ten-year-old Devon Stockard (Barton) leads a lonely existence in her wealthy parents' high-security suburban complex. Her only friend is Trent Burns (Rockwell), a 22-year-old drop-out who works as a 'lawn dog', mowing the lawns of the locals for a living. However, Trent is reviled and looked down upon by those he works for, and his friendship with Devon looks set to get him into a lot of trouble.

Camelot Gardens is a housing development in Louisville, Kentucky, where the neat lawns of its apparently neat middle class families are in a constant state of manicured grace, behind Camelot Gardens brick wall. Young Trent Burns (Sam Rockwell) is one of the lawn dogs who come to mow the lawns; he puts up with the hostility of the security guard and the local teenagers for the meager wages that support him in his rundown caravan in the woods off a deserted back road away from Camelot. Newly arrived is the Stockard family, whose 10 year old daughter, Devon (Mischa Barton), likes to be alone, so she can fantasise and what tough fantasies she has. Especially about a Russian witch who lives in the woods. Fearfully, scared the witch might cook and eat her, Devon searches the woods only to find Trent. Trent, reluctant to risk misunderstandings by paying attention to Devon, is nonetheless unable to resist Devons persistent calls for friendship. The friendship does indeed lead to trouble, fuelled by ignorance, prejudice and bigotry on the one hand, and cynicism on the other. Devons friendship both endangers and saves Trent literally and spiritually.Credit: Urban Cinefile

Newly arrived in an up-market housing development, quiet ten-year-old Devon doesn't quite fit in. Ignoring the urgings of her social-climbing father, Devon chooses the company of Trent, who mows the estate's lawns, rather than of the girls her own age. Their friendship grows during her visits to his trailer home, but although it is completely innocent it is obvious that it would be unacceptable to the residents if they found out.

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