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Sep 14, 2011 · Reviews. You'll never make friends with these guys. Roger Ebert September 14, 2011. Tweet. James Marsden and Alexander Skarsgård in "Straw Dogs." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. This new version of "Straw Dogs" is a reasonably close adaptation of the 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah.
82% Tomatometer 45 Reviews 82% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman), a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy (Susan George), an Englishwoman. In order...
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- Sam Peckinpah
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- Dustin Hoffman
Sep 16, 2011 · "Straw Dogs" is as raw, interesting, and powerful as it's original. A film that deals with aggression, manhood, and human connections pushed to the extremes. There are many subtleties in the performances and some great metaphorical images. A great thriller that literally intensifies until it's satisfying climax. Best film I've seen in months.
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- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Rod Lurie
- 2011-09-16
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- Picture 10/10
- Audio 7/10
- Extras 10/10
- Closing
In this thriller, arguably Sam Peckinpah’s most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating ...
The Criterion Collection regains the rights to Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, presenting a brand new Blu-ray edition featuring a 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation taken from a new 4K restoration scanned from the original 35mm negative. The film is also presented in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1 as opposed to Criterion’s original DVD’s 1.78:1 ratio....
The Blu-ray also offers an audio improvement with this new lossless PCM 1.0 monaural track. Dialogue has decent fidelity and I found the overall presentation a bit more dynamic. The music that pops up during the film is managed a bit better and I didn’t find it overly harsh or edgy here. Some effects still come off a bit flat and detached but those...
Criterion’s previous DVD special edition was a pretty great edition, looking into the film’s making, director Sam Peckinpah’s career, while also tackling the controversies that still surround the film to this day. It was a solid set of features. Thankfully most of that material has been ported over to this new edition with some new material added o...
I thought Criterion’s previous, long out-of-print DVD was a terrific edition in its own right but this new one improves upon that one on every level, with superb picture, improved audio, and some wonderful, insightful supplements. Undoubtedly worth the upgrade. BUY AT:
Straw Dogs Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review. A wholly unnecessary Hollywood treatment of Sam Peckinpah’s unsettling and...
Dec 22, 1971 · Featured review Now that the controversy has gone, an interesting, if flawed film remains American scholar David Summer and his wife return to her home village in Cornwall to give him peace and quiet to write his book on astrophysics.
