Mr. Peckinpah has made some good films (Ride the High Country) and a couple of great films (The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue) -- which may be why Straw Dogs is a special disappointment.
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05/20/03
Straw Dogs (1971)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:27
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.4/10
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... [More]
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Reviews for Straw Dogs
A great and troubling masterpiece, a film of such simultaneous depth and crudeness that it has elicited some of the most conflicting responses of his or any other filmmaker’s career.
04/13/03
A deeply fascinating look at violence.
04/02/03
Feminists, espousers of non-violence, and self-defense activists have been battling out the meaning of this morality play for nearly 30 years now. The time may have arrived for a fresh re-examination.
04/02/03
Straw Dogs serves as the director’s blistering treatise on man’s inherent animalistic impulses.
03/28/03
[Creates] a disturbing mood further fueled by the picture's underlying themes.
03/26/03
It is a dilemmatic circumstance, as the discrimination that founds the conflict between David and the townsmen may occur between the viewer and the film, in result of its final act.
03/18/03
No review available.
08/01/02
Nothing has dimmed its visceral impact. And likely nothing will.
07/30/02
No review available.
07/25/02
Eyes Wide Shut -- and the cooked-up debates surrounding it -- are only about sex in the head. Peckinpah gives you sex as a kick in the groin, a jolt to the brain and a shot to the heart.
12/19/01
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