Straw Dogs
United States
2011
Color
2.40:1
English
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L.A. screenwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) relocates with his wife (Kate Bosworth) to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
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Howard Orr
25May12
Kind of a marriage of a transplanted Peckinpah "Straw Dogs" and typical generic US horror "I Spit On Your Grave" exploitation, with James Marsden as the world's prettiest screenwriter. The relocation of the story to the Deep South is too neat a fit, with it's cookie-cutter associations with religion, degeneracy and guns. And oh! the town's called Blackwater, complete with the bear print. I get Xe point...
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By David Hudson on September 17, 2011
Rod Lurie’s remake presents an opportunity to revisit the controversy kicked up by Peckinpah’s original.
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By Twitchfilm.com on September 19, 2011
Rod Lurie’s Straw Dogs burrows under your skin like a mean junkyard dog burying a bone. It’s the first remake in recent memory that doesn’t feel like a naked cash grab. Lurie had something he wanted to
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Film review: Straw Dogs
By Miasma on September 20, 2011
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