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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. The film's title derives from a discussion in the Tao Te Ching that likens people to the ...
- $2.2 million or £1,055,829
- Daniel Melnick
Sep 16, 2011 · A screenwriter and his wife move to her hometown in Mississippi, where he faces a violent conflict with local men. IMDb provides cast and crew, reviews, trivia, videos, photos and more for this action drama thriller.
- Rod Lurie
- 165
- 3 min
Dec 22, 1971 · Straw Dogs: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna. A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
- Sam Peckinpah
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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 .
- $25 million
- September 16, 2011
- Rod Lurie, Marc Frydman
- Larry Groupé
A controversial thriller by Sam Peckinpah, starring Dustin Hoffman as a mathematician who faces violent men in a Cornish village. The Criterion edition features commentary, documentary, interviews, and more.
- David Sumner
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A mild-mannered American mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) and his wife (Susan George) move to a rural English village where they face hostility and violence from the locals. The film explores themes of masculinity, morality, and revenge in a visceral and provocative way.
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Sep 14, 2011 · A violent adaptation of the 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah, this version follows an intellectual and his wife who move to a rural area where they face a lethal threat from a local gang. The reviewer praises the film for its realistic violence, psychological warfare and performances, and compares it to Peckinpah's original.
