Year of the Dog

Now I am a huge Molly Shannon fan, but this is one of the worst films I have ever seen. Great performances, but absurdly and incessantly bleak. Has a couple moments - ok, just one moment, when the Sarsgaard character is talking about a German Shepherd sypathetically and says "just look at his eyes" and the dogs eyes are CRAZY - but ultimately, this movie was absolutely ridiculous.

I'm trying to remember. Molly Shannon was excellent, as was Peter Sarsgaard, who is a great screen presence. I think I liked it being about a childless, single woman of a certain age, because cinema tends to shy away from having them as lead characters, even as it's having great fun with their male counterparts. I think I also liked something else about it, perhaps the way it showed how people can find all sorts of ways to give focus to their lives. The writer-director is a vegan himself, I believe (and wrote The School of Rock!)

Is this as depressing as the Plague Dogs? (or comparably depressing, I do not think there is a more depressing movie than The Plague Dogs.)

(Also, once again "Year of the Cat" is stuck in my head.)

did anyone see the Bobcat Goldthwaite movie about a woman who admits to her fiance that she had sexual congress with a pooch?

I hated this movie and I thought Molly Shannon was awful in it.