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Straw Dogs 2011
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
| Release Date: | September 16th, 2011 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Running Time: | 110 minutes |
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| Straw Dogs Movie Review by Ben (5/19/2012) |
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There's no way Rod Lurie's remake of "Straw Dogs" could have improved on Peckinpah's 1971 original. Even today, his version is powerfully unnerving as he descends his audience into the inescapable violence in all of us. All the same, Lurie's remake turned out to be better than I expected it to be. Although not a great...
(complete Straw Dogs review by Ben)
| Straw Dogs Movie Review by Jarrod (9/22/2011) |
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'Straw Dogs' is a mostly solid, tense drama, less of a remake than a new version of the story, filtered through the vision of its director, Rod Lurie, who puts his own touches on a rather notorious, yet iconic example of cinematic nihilism, the original 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah, which ended with an orgy of violence that...
(complete Straw Dogs review by Jarrod)
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