Dead Pet

Not fantastic, but definitely entertaining. This film was hilarious. Some may be turned off by the indie quality of the film, acting, and sets, but overall it is a ridiculously bizarre situation that the main character is in and you can't help but laugh at it. I picked this film up on a whim while at the video store and was pleasantly surprised. If you like black comedies (Rushmore, Fargo) then I would totally check this out.

My all time favorite indie!Classic characters. And a plot and lead character that In sure most people capable of empathy can get behind.

Jake Thompson returns home for summer to find out that his parents have spent his college trust fund on the family pet poodle Miko. I did not know a family could generate a college fund-enough to educate a child at Harvard-from collecting old cans.

How Jake could get into Harvard one will never know. How Jake attracts two women while swilling beer in a kiddie pool is more unfathomable.

But all of this is okay because Jake lives in an alternate reality not accessible without ingesting heavy amounts of narcotics.

Take this movie as a random melange of vignettes, all unrelated to one another and the movies captures amusing oddities of american trailer park charaters-I especially liked the knife loving Shears'-and equally clueless suburbirats.

Overall this movie is better than no movie, but almost any other would be better.

The box said "Funnier than 'Something About Mary!'" It must have been one of those fictional newspaper critics because only a fictional character would confuse this stinker with something that's actually entertaining. The acting is bad, the dialog is worse. The only scene that's even moderately funny involves a parody of the cutco knife marketing world, but this scene hardly saves the movie. I love independent films. This isn't even close to what I expect from a good independent film, I want to know who got bribed to get this turkey into the Hollywood video. And I want my five dollars back.

This story is about the wacky life of a kid who comes home from college and finds his life turned upside down. As a film it doesn't compare to American Beauty but it does stand on it's own in the ranks of indie film. If you like indie film you will like this.