In the beguilingly offbeat Lawn Dogs Australian director John Duigan (The Winter of Our Dreams, The Year My Voice Broke, Flirting)—who has always had an affinity for outcasts and the young—and Kentucky poet and playwright Naomi Wallace teamed up to create a memorable fable of the friendship that develops between an imaginative little girl and the outsider who mows the lawns of her gated community. In a larger sense, it is the story of America and the ugly class distinctions that belie our mythology of equality and justice for all. "Like the best southern Gothic fiction," as the Washington Post has pointed out, "Lawn Dogs is an alternately lyrical and harrowing narrative of love and hate." Funny, touching, and poetic, this unusual cross-cultural collaboration remains a unique, if overlooked, contribution to contemporary cinema.