MOVIE · 1977
Sleeping Dogs
ActionAdventureDramaThriller107 min
Framed for murder and branded a revolutionary conspirator, recluse Smith is swept into a conflict between guerrillas and right-wing forces in a fractured New Zealand. Sam Neill is Smith, trying to hold to non-violence as the authorities and insurgents close in from every side. Every attempt to stay apart leaves him deeper inside a movement he never joined. Against a bleak, near-future backdrop, the story follows one man caught between state force, armed resistance, and a country sliding toward civil war.
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