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Sep 16, 2011 · A screenwriter and his wife move to her hometown in the South, where they face a violent conflict with local men. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more for this action drama thriller directed by Rod Lurie.
- Rod Lurie
- 165
- 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.
- $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 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
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.
Sep 14, 2011 · Roger Ebert praises Rod Lurie's adaptation of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film, which he found visceral, disturbing and well-made. He compares the two versions and explores the themes of violence, machismo and territory.
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A controversial film by the director of The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs stars Dustin Hoffman as a mathematician who faces violent men in a Cornish village. The Criterion edition features commentary, documentary, interviews, and more.
