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David Sumner
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Sep 16, 2011 · A screenwriter and his wife move to a small town in Mississippi, where he faces a violent conflict with the locals. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, 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
- 304
- 31 sec
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
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
David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman), a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy (Susan George), an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife ...
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- Sam Peckinpah
- R
- Dustin Hoffman
A young American mathematician ( Dustin Hoffman) comes to the village with his wife ( Susan George ), an English girl whose father owns a home there. They plan to make repairs and settle down while he gets on with his work. His work involves theory on the interiors of stars, but never mind; for Peckinpah's purposes he is an Intellectual.
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Synopsis. This movie is a remake of the 1971 movie of the same name (released 40 years prior) now set in modern day Mississippi. The film opens with shots of Mississippi swampland. Classical music underscores the shots and foreshadows the conflicting styles of the movie's two leading men.
