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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.
- Rod Lurie
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- 3 min
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
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. (2011 film) 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 .
- $25 million
- September 16, 2011
- Rod Lurie, Marc Frydman
- Larry Groupé
Straw Dogs. In this thriller, perhaps 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 ...
- David Sumner
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Sep 14, 2011 · This new version of "Straw Dogs" is a reasonably close adaptation of the 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah. Change the location from England to Mississippi, change a mathematician into a screenwriter, keep the bear trap and the cat found strangled, and it tells the same story. It is every bit as violent. I found it visceral, disturbing and well-made.
Straw Dogs. 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 ...
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