Dog Eat Dog is a 2001 British sex comedy film, directed by Moody Shoaibi and written by Moody Shoaibi and Mark Tonderai.[1]

Dog Eat Dog
Directed by	Moody Shoaibi
Written by	Moody Shoaibi Mark Tonderai
Produced by	Peter Bennett-Jones Amanda Davis Hanno Huth Paul Webster
Starring	Melanie Blatt Gary Kemp Crunski Mark Tonderai Alan Davies John Thomson
Cinematography	John Daly
Edited by	Luke Dunkley
Music by	Mark Hinton Stewart
Production companies	FilmFour Productions Senator Film Produktion Shona Productions Tiger Aspect Productions
Distributed by	FilmFour Distribution
Release dates	8 October 2001 (2001-10-08) (Warsaw International Film Festival) 7 December 2001 (2001-12-07)
Running time	93 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom Germany
Language	English

Plot

Four friends, Rooster, CJ, Jess and Chang, dream of making it as DJs but first they need cash — lots of it, and fast. Their lack of funds is compounded by problems ranging from small (cheating girlfriends, mothers in sleazy movies) to large (the towering presence of Tunde, the local porn king). They come up with various schemes, each more harebrained than the last—stealing library books, breaking and entering, dognapping—all with a spectacular lack of success. And into the bargain, they've fallen foul of drugs baron, Jesus (Gary Kemp), whose slogan is "You've gotta have faith in Jesus".

Cast

• Mark Tonderai as Rooster
• Nathan Constance as Jess
• David Oyelowo as CJ
• Melanie Blatt as Jany, the ex-girlfriend
• Crunski as Chang
• Alan Davies as Phil
• Gary Kemp as Jesus
• Steve Toussaint as Darcy
• Ricky Gervais as Bouncer
• Rebecca Hazlewood as Mina
• Stewart Wright as Eastwood
• Dilys Laye as Edith Scarman
• Daniel Kitson as Bus Driver

Reception

The film received mixed reviews. According to Time Out, "[Shoaibi and Tonderai's] debut feature basically resembles an extended sitcom" and "The film's gross-out humour actually smacks of the Farrelly Brothers' sloppy seconds, right down to the compulsory semen gag."[2] Jamie Russell, writing for the BBC, gave the film two out of five stars, concluding that "Its heart is in the right place, but there's no escaping the fact that this is lightweight stuff."[1]

References

External links

• Dog Eat Dog at IMDb

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