Plot
L.A. 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.
Release Year: 2011
Rating: 5.8/10 (8,669 voted)
Critic's Score: 45/100
Director:
Rod Lurie
Stars: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård
Storyline L.A. 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.
Writers: Rod Lurie, David Zelag Goodman
Cast: James Marsden
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David Sumner
Kate Bosworth
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Amy Sumner
Alexander Skarsgård
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Charlie
James Woods
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Tom Heddon
Dominic Purcell
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Jeremy Niles
Rhys Coiro
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Norman
Billy Lush
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Chris
Laz Alonso
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John Burke
Willa Holland
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Janice Heddon
Walton Goggins
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Daniel Niles
Anson Mount
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Coach Milkens
Drew Powell
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Bic
Kristen Shaw
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Abby
Megan Adelle
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Melissa
Jessica Cook
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Helen
Taglines:
I will not allow violence against this house.
Opening Weekend: $5,123,760
(USA)
(18 September 2011)
(2408 Screens)
Gross: $10,324,441
(USA)
(9 October 2011)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
The famous quote "I will not allow violence against this house" is not in the version shown in theaters.
Goofs:
Continuity:
The two registration stickers on David's Jaguar E-Type's rear California license plate at first appear on the bottom corners of the plate (which is in itself a goof) but in later shots appear on the upper corners as is correct for California license plates.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Norman:
[takes butchering saw to still live deer]
David Sumner:
Norm. What are you doing, man? Geez.
User Review
Dull, unnecessary remake
Rating: 1/10
Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" remains a most disturbing, morally
ambiguous confrontation between the brute code of uneducated farmboys
with the complex attempts at rationalization by a sophisticated,
neurotic, hyper-educated urban college professor attempting to escape
the responsibilities of living in an increasingly complex world. It is
also a magnificently constructed motion picture, elegantly
photographed, brilliantly edited, hauntingly scored, with powerhouse
performances from every actor.
This wholly unnecessary remake on the other hand is amateurish swill -
banal photography, drama-class acting (and why not? all the characters
have been reduced to caricature), and soap-opera rewriting. It's
basically a television movie with some sex and violence thrown in for
the fan-boy crowd. It's even got the requisite car-chases, and
supposedly pointed dialog about adultery and motivations, blah blah
blah.
Graceless, visually dull, with no sympathetic characters, but a lotta
boom! crash! foe those who think loud noises and pyrotechnics make up
for lack of intelligence and imagination.
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