Straw Dogs
R · 1971 ‧ Thriller/Western ‧ 1h 53m
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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 relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy...
Release date: December 22, 1971 (USA)
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios and Cinerama Releasing Corporation
Adapted from: The Siege of Trencher's Farm
Box office: $8 million (rentals)
Budget: $2.2 million or £1,055,829
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David whose pacifism is put to supreme test attempts to protect a dim-witted man (Dominic Purcell) who is suspected of disappearance and molesting a young girl ...
Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and ...
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Posted: May 13, 2011
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In this thriller, perhaps Sam Peckinpah's most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, ...
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'Straw Dogs' takes place in a Peckinpah world where men must be willing to do life's dirty work and anything else if they wish to survive, and where actions ...
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Synopsis Married couple David (James Marsden) and Amy (Kate Bosworth) move to her hometown of Blackwater, Miss., after her father's death. They have a plan to ...
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A violent, provocative meditation on manhood, Straw Dogs is viscerally impactful -- and decidedly not for the squeamish. Read Critics Reviews.
Jan 14, 2024 · The whole movie just feels ultimately pointless, nothing other than just an excuse for some half-baked violence and some really awful rape ...
May 5, 2024 · Quintessential portrait of a timid man who gets pushed too far. Hoffman has made many great films in his career, and this is one of his best. A ...