LAWN DOGS

1997 Trimark Home Video 100 Minutes Rated R

Devon, with her wagon full of cookies, makes the social leap from select community to trailer living

The people of Camelot Gardens housing estates truly enjoy the security and banality of life in an affluent synthetic community. Everyone that is, except ten year old Devon who crosses the tracks while on a quest to sell her scout cookies. She meets up with her family's lawn cutter,Trent ( Sam Rockwell) while knocking on trailer doors. Despite their differences in social standing, he carefully initiate Devon in the 3D life available outside the gates. There is nothing plausible about any of it, and the director John Duigan reminds you every 90 seconds of the social chasm between the characters. All rich people are boring social climbing dick heads and the white trash lifestyle is honest and interesting and fatal.None the less, Mischa Burton is great as Devon and there are pockets of subtlety shining through Naomi Wallaces screenplay.