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Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1992)

Where Sleeping Dogs Lie poster
Directed by
Charles Finch
Genre
crime film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A writer moves into a secluded Hollywood mansion to work on a novel. He becomes entangled in a mystery involving his landlord and suspects a murder may have taken place in the house.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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