Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs,” released forty years ago, is perhaps the most thematically confused thriller ever made. On the surface, it’s a standard fish-out-of-water/revenge story: a stuffy professor, David (Dustin Hoffman) and his lithe, blonde, British housewife Amy (Susan George) are tormented by hooligans—including Amy’s ex-boyfriend—when they move back to her rustic England hometown. At ... more >
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Straw Dogs
Remake faithful to the original--for better or for worse
James Marsden, Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgård
Directed by Rod Lurie
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