Sleeping Dogs

Film · 1978 TMDB 5.8 50 votes

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.

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Roger Donaldson

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New Zealand Film Commission Aardvark Films Broadbank Investments New Zealand Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council

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Sam NeillSmith

Ian MuneBullen

Warren OatesCol. Willoughby

Nevan RoweGloria

Donna AkerstenMary

Ian WatkinDudley

William JohnsonCousins M Melissa DonaldsonMelissa D Dougal StevensonNews Reader B Bernard KearnsPrime Minister R Raf IrvingReporter C Cass DonaldsonCass

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Release date 1978-07-13

Countries New Zealand

Production & box office Budget $308.2K

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