Lie Down With Dogs

Lie Down With Dogs is a 1995 directorial debut comedy feature film written, directed, produced and starring Wally White.^[1]

Lie Down With Dogs
Directed by	Wally White
Written by	Wally White
Produced by	Carijn Lau Jennifer Ryan Cohen Eli Kabillio Wally White
Starring	Wally White Bash Halow James Sexton Darren Dryden Ty-Ranne Grimstad Randy Becker
Cinematography	George Mitas
Edited by	Hart F. Faber
Music by	Jellybean Benitez
Distributed by	Miramax
Release date	1995 (1995)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The film was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and was distributed by Miramax.^[2]

Plot

Tommie, a gay New Yorker, travels to Provincetown for a vacation with the philosophy, "Be gay, let the guilt go."^[2]

Critical reception

Variety wrote "Certainly "Dogs" is no "Longtime Companion," but in his eagerness to please, White has come up with an amateurish, slapdash pic that is, frankly, pretty boring," adding "White delivers an eager, amiable screen persona, but hardly anyone else in the cast registers."^[2]

Caryn James of The New York Times said ""Lie Down With Dogs" resembles a film-school exercise, an apprentice work filled with pseudo-arty visual images and humor that strains to be clever," and in regards to director Wally White's lead performance "As Tommie, Mr. White talks straight into the camera, but he is an unnatural actor."^[1]

Conversely, Kevin Thomas from the Los Angeles Times called Lie Down With Dogs "A bittsweet awakening," writing "In his wry, jaunty “Lie Down With Dogs,” Wally White immediately dispenses with the twin expectations of gay filmmakers: to be politically correct and/or pornographic."^[3]

SFGate in its review also described Lie Down With Dogs as a "jaunty, low-budget first feature," and that lead actor Wally White "has a bubbly juvenile appeal as the restless Tommie."^[4]