Straw Dogs

  • Drama
  • Thriller
9/16/2011
110
R

Everyone has a breaking point.

A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.

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Revenue:
$10,324,441
Budget:
$25,000,000

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  • Wuchak

    How far can a civilized man be pushed?

    A well-to-do couple from Los Angeles (James Marsden and Kate Bosworth) move back to the wife's hometown in southern Mississippi and settle into the now vacant homestead. They enlist some roofers whom she knows from growing up, the leader being 6'4" Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård), a former boyfriend. Rivalry is in the air as he subtly tries to emasculate Amys brainy husband and she starts to question his manhood. Havoc ensues.

    Straw Dogs (2011) was shot in late summer, 2009, but not released until two years later. Its a remake of the Peckinpah's film from 40 years prior, which changes the setting from the Cornish countryside of southwest England to the modern Deep South. Its a psychological-...

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