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Sep 16, 2011 · Straw Dogs: Directed by Rod Lurie. With James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods. Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South.
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- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Rod Lurie
- 2011-09-16
Straw Dogs is a 2011 American action thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs, itself based on the Gordon Williams novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. It stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth.
This new version of "Straw Dogs" is a reasonably close adaptation of the 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah. Change the location from England to Mississippi, change a mathematician into a screenwriter, keep the bear trap and the cat found strangled, and it tells the same story.
Straw Dogs. Married couple David (James Marsden) and Amy (Kate Bosworth) move to her hometown of Blackwater, Miss., after her father's death. They have a plan to renovate Amy's old home and ...
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- Rod Lurie
- R
- James Marsden
Jun 8, 2011 · A NEW THRILLER with Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood) - L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing...
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Screenwriter David Sumner and his wife Amy travel in his Jaguar to her hometown, Blackwater, Mississippi. Amy's father has died and David intends to write his Stalingrad screenplay in the house. He hires contractor Charlie and his team to repair the barn roof.