Straw Dogs
The movie revolves around American mathematician David Sumner and his English wife who come to rural England to avoid the Vietnam-era social chaos in the U.S and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
29 September 1920, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya [now Malaysia]
16 February 1927, Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK
29 July 1941, Manchester, England, UK
20 March 1942
17 December 1938, Dublin, Ireland
8 August 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 November 1943, Leslie, Fife, Scotland, UK
4 April 1923, Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
August 30, 2006
One of Sam Peckinpah's finest films, a relentless study in violence and machismo that is shocking, not only for its explicit gore, but for the degree to which it manipulates 'civilized' audiences.
December 29, 2011
A taut drama with great performances and a recipe for action and tension that modern-day thrillers could learn from.
October 23, 2004
The most offensive thing about the movie is its hypocrisy; it is totally committed to the pornography of violence, but lays on the moral outrage with a shovel.
January 22, 2010
Ugliness that must be taken seriously
May 20, 2003
Mr. Peckinpah has made some good films (Ride the High Country) and a couple of great films (The Wild Bunch, The Ballad of Cable Hogue) -- which may be why Straw Dogs is a special disappointment.
July 28, 2009
Anchored by Dustin Hoffman's seminal performance, Peckinpah's second masterpiece (after The Wild Bunch) is still one of the most provocative, controversial, and ambiguous explorations of actual violence and our reaction to screen violence.
October 01, 2011
But what if the mask of your neighbor tilts for a second and you catch a glimpse of the riot going on behind his face? What if you accidentally see the monster feasting on his prey? Now what if you're looking in the mirror?
March 26, 2008
Gory and shocking.
December 19, 2001
Eyes Wide Shut -- and the cooked-up debates surrounding it -- are only about sex in the head. Peckinpah gives you sex as a kick in the groin, a jolt to the brain and a shot to the heart.
April 01, 2007
Um assustador estudo sobre o animal interior do Homem que, mesmo moralista, conservador e misógino, impressiona por sua complexidade.
September 24, 2011
It ends up hackneyed, unnecessary, and clichéd, improved only by the A-list acting talent and slickness of the production values.
August 05, 2003
Upon first viewing, it seems like a straightforward film, but the more one watches it, the more tension one sees in the relationship between the couple.
