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Straw Dogs
Directed by
Rod Lurie
R
2011
1h 50m
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5.8
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Los Angeles 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.
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Cast of Straw Dogs
James Marsden
David Sumner
Kate Bosworth
Amy Sumner
Alexander Skarsgård
Charlie Venner
Dominic Purcell
Jeremy Niles
Laz Alonso
Deputy John Burke
Willa Holland
Janice Heddon
James Woods
Tom Heddon
Walton Goggins
Daniel Niles
Rhys Coiro
Norman
Billy Lush
Chris
Anson Mount
Coach Milkens
Kristen Shaw
Abby
Drew Powell
Bic
Megan Adelle
Melissa
Wanetah Walmsley
Kristen
Randall Newsome
Blackie
Tim J. Smith
Larry
Richard Folmer
Pastor
Rod Lurie
Logger
Kelly Holleman
Beauty Queen
Straw Dogs Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
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.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Holleman
For the most part, Lurie's remake serves as a credible update to the original, and the performances from Skarsgard, Marsden and Bosworth are solid.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
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.
USA Today
Scott Bowles
Lurie informs his movie with plenty of nods to the original and at least manages a story that will have people talking - if not about the nature of human violence, then about the grisly depiction of it.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
This Straw Dogs is nearly all bark, with the occasional, predictable bite that frankly fails to draw any emotional blood.
Boxoffice Magazine
Nick Schager
Doggedly faithful and yet soft around the edges.
Film.com
William Goss
Everything here plays out to the same beats and yet ultimately results in conventional revenge-minded catharsis rather than queasy ambivalence.
DVDTalk.com
Jason Bailey
To call out any remake as specifically "unnecessary" is a dash down a rabbit hole, but the mere existence of a 2011 cover of 'Straw Dogs' is, all things considered, befuddling.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Lurie's smart enough to know that we're supposed to be disturbed -- and not titillated -- by the savagery the movie depicts.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Back in 1971, the Peckinpah film horrified moviegoers with its bloody climax, whereas today people are so vengeful and sadistic that the remake is just another multiplex crowd pleaser.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
[It] doesn't bring anything new to the table.
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
There's no matching the sinister village faces in Peckinpah's cast or the psychological acuity of his scene-making, but Lurie shows himself man enough for the material.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Almost succeeds as an object lesson in the difference between being a man and being a macho animal. But it fails as a gripping home-invasion thriller.
Movieline
Alison Willmore
[It] has been contemporized, sanitized and stripped of all complexity, and what's left is as empty as a used piata.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The original Straw Dogs, at least to me, isn't close to being one of Peckinpah's masterpieces, but it's a movie that the people who first saw it still remember 40 years later. I doubt that anyone will remember the new one by next month.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Rod Lurie's bird-brained remake of "Straw Dogs" doesn't work on its own terms, and it can't hold a candle to the unruly, unstable merits of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 original.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie is like being waterboarded by liberals outside a Democratic National Committee event.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
As a filmmaker, Mr. Lurie cannot hope to match Peckinpah's lyricism, but he strikes a decent balance of bluntness and subtlety.
Slant Magazine
Jaime N. Christley
The fissure between faithful, respectful monument and soulless, hot-**** modernization/transplant also paints Rod Lurie, fatally, into a corner.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Lurie wants us to see the moral wounds that come from losing control, a solid reason for a remake. Both takes on Straw Dogs hold up a dark mirror to humanity. Choose your own bad medicine.
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