Year of the Dog (film)

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Year of the Dog
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Mike White
Produced by	Mike White Ben Le Clair Dede Gardner
Written by	Mike White
Starring	Molly Shannon
Music by	Christophe Beck
Cinematography	Tim Orr
Editing by	Dody Dorn
Distributed by	Paramount Vantage
Release date(s)	20 January, 2007
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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Year of the Dog is a film written and directed by Mike White and starring Molly Shannon, Laura Dern, Regina King, Tom McCarthy, Josh Pais, John C. Reilly, and Peter Sarsgaard.

It premiered January 20, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

[edit] Plot

Peggy (Molly Shannon) is an inexplicably cheerful office worker whose somewhat sad excuse for a life seems to revolve around her pet beagle Pencil. She can relate better to her four-legged friend than she does to most humans. Most of her person-to-person interaction revolves around doting on other people's children and treating her co-workers to daily donuts, and Peggy just doesn't find much solace in the company of her know-it-all sister-in-law Bret (Laura Dern) or her anxiety-prone boss Robin (Josh Pais). When Peggy's dog Pencil is taken before his time, the devastated dog-lover is wracked with guilt. Now desperate to fill the gaping void that has suddenly opened in her life, Peggy agrees to a date with her gun-nut neighbor Al (John C. Reilly) that ends in disaster when she suspects that the boorish brute may have in fact poisoned her ill-fated pooch. Later, after adopting every dog at the local pound and becoming an overzealous animal-rights activist, the increasingly unhinged Peggy reaches out to asexual activist Newt (Peter Sarsgaard) in a last-grasp attempt at forming a human connection that is met with casual indifference.