Lawn Dogs
Lawn Dogs is a 1997 BritishAmerican fantasydrama film directed by John Duigan and starring Mischa Barton and Sam Rockwell. The film tells the story of a precocious young girl Barton from a gated community who befriends a landscape worker Rockwell, and examines the societal repercussions of their friendship. Written by Naomi Wallace, the film was released by Rank Organisation, and was the companys last production.
The film focuses on 10yearold Devon Stockard Mischa Barton, a precocious and lonely young girl who has recently moved into a gated community called Camelot Gardens with her parents, Morton and Clare Christopher McDonald and Kathleen Quinlan. Recently having recovered from open heart surgery, Devon is encouraged by her parents to make friends, and she is pushed to sell cookies for a charity event for the summer. While selling cookies, Devon leaves the gated community against the instruction of her mother, and meets Trent Burns Sam Rockwell, a poor man who lives in a trailer in the woods, and who does landscaping work in Camelot Gardens. An imaginative child, Devon imagines her life to be like the fable of Baba Yaga, a fairytale which the film makes parallels to.Devon, at first an annoyance to Trent, continues to come to his property and slowly befriends him despite the innocence of their friendship, he insists that she keep it a secret due to their age difference. While working in Camelot Gardens, Trent begins having altercations with two young men who live there Brett David Barry Gray, who is having an affair with Devons mother and Sean Eric Mabius, a man with closeted homosexual tendencies who flirts with Trent. During a family barbecue, Devon explores her fathers car in their garage. She finds her fathers handgun in the glove compartment of his SUV. Brett discovers her and with the gun and attempts to molest Devon in the garage, but she escapes. She tells her parents about the incident, but then insists that Brett was only trying to tickle her. Clare begins to notice Devons apparent friendship with Trent when he comes to do lawn work at their house, and becomes alarmed. Meanwhile, Brett and Sean terrorize Trent by pouring sugar in the fuel tank of his lawnmower and start a fight with him after they wrongfully believe he stole CDs from Seans car. ........
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