Synopsis
Lawn Dogs (1997) is a British drama by John Duigan, available to watch online on iFILM. It unfolds in Camelot Gardens, a gated suburb of identical houses and obsessively trimmed lawns, where bored wives drift through affairs and their husbands chase a higher rung on the social ladder. Ten-year-old Devon, marked by several heart operations, sees straight through all of it.
Trent mows those lawns. He's a 21-year-old outsider carrying a gunshot scar and a beat-up truck, and he happens to be the only adult who talks to Devon like a person. Their friendship spooks the whole neighborhood. Sam Rockwell and a young Mischa Barton give the odd, fairy-tale-tinged bond a raw honesty that the polished setting keeps trying to crush. A quiet, overlooked indie for anyone who likes social drama where a child's imagination collides with adult hypocrisy. Stream Lawn Dogs (1997) online on iFILM.
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