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Straw Dogs

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Straw Dogs
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NR,1hr 58min
Genre:
Action
Release:
1971
Director:
Sam Peckinpah
Distributor:
Anchor Bay
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan  ...more
Synopsis: Sam Peckinpah examines the instinctual capacity for violence in his controversial 1971 film, loosely based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. To avoid the Vietnam-era social chaos in the U.S., American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) moves with his British wife, Amy (Susan George), to the isolated Cornish town where she grew up, but their presence provokes antagonism among the village's men. As the hostilities escalate from routine bullying to the gang rape of his wife, David ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Upon its release (within a month of Stanley Kubrick's similar meditation on ultra-violence, A Clockwork Orange), Straw Dogs sharply divided critics and audiences over whether it exploited and glorified macho bloodshed or commented on the violence that had become a fact of 1960s American life. Peckinpah proclaimed his own distaste for violence, suggesting that Straw Dogs portrays how society fails to ... Full Review
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Dustin Hoffman
David
Susan George
Amy
Peter Vaughan
Tom Hedden
T.P. McKenna
Maj. Scott
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