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The most offensive thing about the movie is its hypocrisy; it is totally committed to the pornography of violence, but lays on the moral outrage with a shovel. The perfect criticism of "Straw Dogs" already has been made. It is "The Wild Bunch." Thriller.
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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.
A violent, provocative meditation on manhood, Straw Dogs is viscerally impactful -- and decidedly not for the squeamish. Read Critics Reviews
- (45)
- Sam Peckinpah
- R
- Dustin Hoffman
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.
- (65K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1971-12-22
Sep 16, 2011 · 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. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
- (36K)
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Rod Lurie
- 2011-09-16
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.
Sep 13, 2011 · Straw Dogs: Film Review. James Marsden, Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard star in director Rod Lurie's redo of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 original.
