James Marsden
David Sumner
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Straw Dogs
2011
Dec 22, 1971 · A young American and his English wife face local harassment and violence in rural England. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more for this controversial film by Sam Peckinpah.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1971-12-22
Sep 16, 2011 · A screenwriter and his wife move to her hometown in Mississippi, where he faces a violent conflict with local men. The film is a faithful adaptation of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 classic, with James Marsden and Alexander Skarsgård as the leads.
- (36K)
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Rod Lurie
- 2011-09-16
Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm.
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Straw Dogs is a 2011 American action thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs, itself based on the Gordon Williams novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. It stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth.
A controversial thriller by Sam Peckinpah, starring Dustin Hoffman as a mathematician who faces violent men in a Cornish village. The film features commentary, documentary, interviews, and more extras on the Criterion Blu-ray release.
- David Sumner
A violent, provocative meditation on manhood, Straw Dogs is viscerally impactful -- and decidedly not for the squeamish. David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman), a mild-mannered academic from the United...
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- Drama, Mystery & Thriller
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Roger Ebert criticizes Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" for its hypocrisy and melodrama, comparing it unfavorably to "The Wild Bunch". He finds the violence unselective and the characters cliche, and questions the moral message of the film.
