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- In the film, a husband and wife couple played by Dustin Hoffman and Susan George move to the outskirts of her home village in England, where he’s emasculated and she’s ogled by local yokels. Domestic scenes show a distinct marital discord that elevates the tension, leading to a rape, and subsequent violence when townspeople raid their home.
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There is something about this man and his sexy wife that disturbs the locals down at the pub, and what begins as a subtle competition over territorial rights (in the Darwinian sense) escalates implacably into a full-blown lethal struggle.
Summaries. Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both. Screenwriter David Sumner and his wife Amy travel in his Jaguar to her hometown, Blackwater, Mississippi.
Plot. Scriptwriter David Sumner and his wife Amy, an actress, relocate to rural Mississippi where Amy grew up. They are going to live in the house of Amy's recently deceased father to allow David to finish a script. While in town one afternoon, David meets Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie and his three friends, Norman, Chris, and Bic.
Movie review of Straw Dogs (2011) by The Critical Movie Critics | Locals threaten James Marsden and his wife Kate Bosworth in their new home.
- Mariusz Zubrowski
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- Rod Lurie
Nov 4, 2011 · As remakes go, Rod Lurie’s Straw Dogs (2011) manages to hold its own against Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 classic of the same name, achieved through some innovative changes and strong performances from a cast that includes Alexander Skarsgård (best know for his role as Eric Northman in HBO’s True Blood, and more recently for his part in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia), Kate ...
Sep 16, 2011 · Straw Dogs: Directed by Rod Lurie. With James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods. Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
An intelligently crafted and stimulating psychological battle of warfare, STRAW DOGS is punctuated with explosive shocking violence that stays with you long after the curtain closes. Where does savage violence begin and end?
