Sleeping Dogs
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
At a glance
Countries
New Zealand
Ratings
TMDB users
5.6/10
46 votes
Rating consensus
56/100 blend
Sources: TMDB
Moderate-to-positive blended read — weighted ~56/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.
Cast
Sam Neill
Smith
Warren Oates
Col. Willoughby
Ian Mune
Bullen
Ian Watkin
Dudley
William Johnson
Cousins
Davina Whitehouse
Elsie
Nevan Rowe
Gloria
Clyde Scott
Jesperson
Donna Akersten
Mary
Don Selwyn
Taupiri
Melissa Donaldson
Melissa
Dougal Stevenson
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Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Roger Donaldson
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