Lawn Dogs is too good of a film to label it filthit's not.While this film is clearly not for children it does have fantasy elements,as well as good moments of drama and comedy that makes it a very well rounded film about a gated community full of a bunch of bluenoses who treat the middle class or the poor as trashexcept for a little girl who befriends a poor man.
This film is brilliant with a Great cast of actors such as Sam Rockwell,Mischa Barton,Kathleen Quinlan,Bruce McGill and a small part played by the Beautiful Angie Harmon.This film is R rated but the friendship between Sam Rockwell's character
and young Mischa Barton is very clean and very touching.
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Why do people have to tarnish everything these days?
umthis movie has some pedophilic type content.
Believe me, theres probably some sickos that really love this movie

Brilliant, no question. Absolutely remarkable, magical film-the fairy tale ending was really pushed it over the edge to excellent for me.
I loved their friendship and really, so I don't even want to broach the idea of 'filth' as it was clear there was nothing dodgy going on. Why do people have to tarnish everything these days?

i thought the friendship between devon and trent was really touching and some of the shots were beautiful, esp the one at the beginning. i liked the fairy tale aspect of the film too. that's what made it for me really. also i thought the soundtrack went really well with the mood of the scenes.
'some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese'

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An absolute masterpiece, undoubtedly. I only finished watching it ten minutes ago and I'm still haunted by the beautiful dreamlike ending. I haven't felt this way after watching a film in ages, completely and utterly unique, even though the subject matter has been dealt with before in films such us as sling blade, but never in such gorgoues majestic jaw dropping magnificance. As close to perfect as any film could possibly hope to be.

Saw this film on TV recently for the second or third time and i still love it. The acting from the two leads is better and more mature than any of recent times, the script is well written and ties up any loose ends and the locations look stunning. They have been many films made over the years from all over the world that are equally as good, but very few films have a effect on me. Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me are the others but i can add Lawn Dogs to that list. A simply brillient film all round.
Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.

The movie was very simple and characters were a bit clich, but the magic realism and the overall dreamy atmosphere made it special.

To the previous poster who said it was filthy for depicting a student/teacher realtionship:
The film didn't glorify the teacher/student relationship, it depicted the relationship as seedy, wrong, and the people involved as morally challenged.
Saying this film is seedy for having that relationship in it is like saying Blood Diamond is a disgusting film because it shows that people are hurt in the diamond trade.
When the film maker portrays a situation that does occur in real life it doesn't mean they condone that situation, in fact often, it means the opposite.

Of course, the students have nothing to do with it, right?

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I really hope you're being sarcastic.
"Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."

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well it looked like this discussion was reasonably handled until recent comments. Not filth, but not brilliant either. Sturdy performances all round. A good movie.
I also like the irony of "House of 1000 corpses" branding it filth, with such high moralistic tones. Remind me, what happened in that Rob Zombie flick again??

its filth,,, i mean student going to the house of the teacher he sleeps with while her husband is there its disgusting, all teachers who have affairs with students should be shot..

Neither.
Its total crap.

Utter, utter filth. Cinematic brainfood for pseudointellectuals.

God forbid a child be anything but fully clothed in an artform!
I'll not deny, there is something (quite obvious) about this film that attracts paedophiles, it was one of my girllover friends that introduced me to the film, but is there a problem with that? Topless Mischa in a relatively pointless scene does not make the movie bad - that aside, you do not actually see anything unless you're actively seeking it out.
Whether you can see any depth in it or not, this is a beautiful, very emotional film. I feel it carries a very important message about our society, and your reaction to the movie only validates it.

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Bump. Exactamente.

well I saw it like 2 days ago and it goes like this: devon says 'touch it'. trent's like 'no thanks'. then Devon says something like 'go on' and then he runs his finger down the scar and says 'that's cool'. and then he shows her his scar.
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wait what? that's exactly what he did.
out of all the things i've lost i miss my mind the least