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Director:
Simon Ellis
Writers:
Brock Norman Brock (screenplay) and
Michael Groom (writer)
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Release Date:
25 December 2009 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy
Plot:
An aspiring journalist drops his inhibitions to research the UK's outdoor sex scene. He meets a certain girl in a car park, and the totally unexpected happens. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
Indie Roundup: 'Dogging,' 'Serious,' 'Capitalism'
 (From Cinematical. 8 October 2009, 2:03 PM, PDT)

Trailer For Dogging: A Love Story
 (From EmpireOnline. 7 October 2009, 5:38 AM, PDT)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dogging (UK) (working title)
Dogging: A Romantic Comedy (UK) (working title)
Northern Star: A Love Story (UK) (working title)
Public Sex (USA)
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Runtime:
Netherlands:103 min (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Company:
Vertigo Films more

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3 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
embarrassingly poor, 3 March 2009
3/10
Author: Neil Young (neil@cudas.demon.co.uk) from Sunderland, England

Astonishing that this was the only British film reckoned worthy of a slot in the Tiger Competition at Rotterdam 2009. Programming the film at all was a baffling move, but to position it in such a prestigious slot is an embarrassment for all concerned.

It's a rubbishy, mirthless Brit-com that's opportunistic and exploitative, but without any of the positives of old-school "exploitation cinema."

Slim but convoluted plot hangs on the illicit sexual activity 'dogging' - semi-public in-car coitus - a practice that made some salacious UK tabloid headlines a couple of years back.

Here it becomes the saucy/seedy pretext for a sloppily-scripted, tut-tutting exercise in larkish prurience, involving various feckless young adults (one of them a priapic Geordie satyr played by newcomer Richard Riddell, who deserves much better material) in and around the Newcastle region.

NB : Given the location and subject-matter, surely 'Go Forth, Tyne Dogger' would have been a better title.

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