After over a month of watching mediocre movies, I have discovered two beloved ones in the last two days!  Sometimes it is fun to be in bed sick with nothing to do but watch TV.  "Sleeping Dogs Lie," which played last night on the Sundance channel, is a wickedly honest love story. It was written and directed by Bob(cat) Goldthwait, whom I haven't seen or heard from in years.  The characters - all of them - made me smile with their awkward believability.  "Sleeping Dogs" easily turns today's retarded, pathetically romantic comedies (like the godawful "Music and Lyrics") squarely on their head.  It was wonderfully refreshing to find a film that understands, and understands deeply, that nothing that pertains to human relationships is anything close to normal, and that every one of us has a dark side that would raise eyebrows (and maybe other things, too) if it were to suddenly bust loose in polite company.

PS:  This movie, when searching IMDB, is alternately titled "Stay."   This renaming is possibly to avoid a movie title traffic jam, seeing as how there are four other films in recent years with the same name.