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Straw Dogs (2011)
The film centers on a young couple: a screenwriter ( David) and his actress wife (Amy Sumner) return to her small hometown. Suddenly, everything becomes chaos when they get serious problems with local people especially violent confrontation with Amy's ex- boyfriend.
30 November 1981, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
18 June 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 August 1976, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
25 February 1973, White Bluff, Tennessee, USA
17 February 1970, Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK
3 December 1985, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
2 January 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 March 1979, Calabria, Italy
February 15, 2013
On the bright side, it's probably the only movie ever made to boast kickass tunes by the southern-rock triumvirate of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, and Blackfoot.
September 22, 2012
The best that can be said about Straw Dogs is that it's watchable: and that's due to Alexander Skarsgard's stellar abs.
September 16, 2011
Everything here plays out to the same beats and yet ultimately results in conventional revenge-minded catharsis rather than queasy ambivalence.
April 06, 2012
Comes off like its poster: a copycat that superficially looks the same but lacks in inspiration.
September 16, 2011
One of those movies that sits in an armchair, smokes a pipe and reflects "seriously" on "the question of violence," but the main reason to see it is for the hilariously nasty uses it devises for a bear trap, nail gun, etc.
September 18, 2011
Lurie, like Peckinpah, is fascinated by the idea that the seemingly mild, non-confrontational pacifist may be the villain in all of this.
September 16, 2011
Lurie's smart enough to know that we're supposed to be disturbed -- and not titillated -- by the savagery the movie depicts.
September 16, 2011
While Lurie could have gone lighter on the symbolism, he ratchets up the tension with deft intelligence. He's not just making a thriller but a horror film, and we feel his own fear in every scene.
October 02, 2012
Straw Dogs does little more than rely on graphic violence as well as outdated stereotypes to keep the tension high.
January 29, 2012
There's nothing profound or mysterious about Straw Dogs. The performances are solid, but the movie is mostly forgettable.
September 23, 2011
A routine, if rather gruesome thriller with attractive leads ducking in and out of danger.
June 07, 2012
In the history of remakes, this really isn't a bad one...
