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Straw Dogs

1971

Sam Peckinpah

Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, David Warner, Peter Vaughan ...

7.4

22,741

Drama. Thriller Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do contruction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A major disappointment in which Peckinpah's theories about violence seem to have regressed to a sort of 19th-Century mixture of Kipling and machismo (...) The most offensive thing is its hypocrisy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"When a movie can be summarized so easily, why make a movie at all? (...) It is an intelligent movie, but interesting only in the context of his other works"	NEU
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"'Straw Dogs' serves as the director’s blistering treatise on man’s inherent animalistic impulses (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Andre Dellamorte Collider	"'Straw Dogs' is not fun to watch, but it’s a singular and powerful experience that is truly a great work of art."	POS
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"Peckinpah's mission is to disturb and he achieves it through intricate editing (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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