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Straw Dogs (1971)

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Reviews Counted:47

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Rotten:26

Average Rating:2.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A quiet, peace-loving American moves with his wife to an isolated English village where he is constantly harassed. He is finally pushed into a violent confrontation in order to protect himself and... A quiet, peace-loving American moves with his wife to an isolated English village where he is constantly harassed. He is finally pushed into a violent confrontation in order to protect himself and his wife. [More]

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, Peter Arne, David Warner, Ken Hutchison, Colin Welland, Jim Norton

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Director: Sam Peckinpah
Screenwriter: David Zelag Goodman, Sam Peckinpah
Producer: Daniel Melnick
Composer: Jerry Fielding

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Jan 19, 1999

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Boy, that Sam Peckinpah was a strange one, wasn't he?

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There is an obviousness to the themes Peckinpah explores, but seldom have those themes before or since been dealt with as viscerally and effectively.

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July 16, 2009: Bosworth and Skarsgard are Straw Dogs Opens in new window
Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgard have signed on for Rod Lurie's remake of Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs," joining a cast that already included James Marsden. More...

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