Straw Dogs
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.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Released
- 2011
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 2011
Storyline
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.
Top credits
James Marsden — David Sumner
Kate Bosworth — Amy Sumner
Alexander Skarsgård — Charlie
James Woods — Tom Heddon
Did you know
• The film, a remake of the controversially violent 1971 movie, is considered fairly faithful to Sam Peckinpah's original, though the location has been moved from Cornwall, England to the U.S. Mississippi Gulf Coast, and the hero's profession has been changed from mathematician to screenwriter.
• Kate Bosworth said that to make the rape scene more lifelike, she told her co-star Alexander Skarsgård not to hold back as he pretended to perform the violent sex assault for the cameras. "I told Alex not to worry about me, to just go for it,' the Daily Mail quoted her as telling the BlackBook magazine. "I said, 'I need you to lose yourself in this moment'. And it was actually violent. He's a huge guy. When he was ripping off my clothes in front of a room filled with men, even though I knew it was make-believe, it was still incredibly violating and terrifying. The panic you see flooding me in that rape scene is real," she added.
• Dustin Hoffman, who starred in (and famously disliked) the original film, Straw Dogs (1971), gave Rod Lurie his blessing.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $10,324,441
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $5,123,760 (2011-09-18)
User reviews
What was shocking in 1971 becomes dull in 2011
What are You Capable of?
Has a better build up
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- SDDS, Dolby Digital, Datasat
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- Color
- Color
