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Directed by | Rod Lurie |
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Screenplay by | Rod Lurie |
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Music by | Larry Groupé |
Cinematography | Alik Sakharov |
Edited by | Sarah Boyd |
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Battleplan Productions
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Distributed by | Screen Gems |
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109 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $25 million |
Box office | $11.2 million |
Straw Dogs is a 2011 American psychological 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. Critical reception of the film was generally lukewarm, and it performed poorly at the box office. It still is currently unknown if the film will eventually see a DVD release or if not a Blu-Ray release, as both Sony Pictures Entertainment and BattlePlan Productions, still have not announced any upcoming digital media format releases for this film in the United States.
Scriptwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) and his wife, actress Amy Sumner (Kate Bosworth), move to where Amy grew up, in rural Mississippi, to rebuild the house of Amy's recently deceased father and to allow David to finish a script. David meets Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie Venner (Alexander Skarsgård) and his friends Norman (Rhys Coiro), Chris (Billy Lush), and Bic (Drew Powell), whom he hires to fix a roof. David also meets former football coach Tom Heddon (James Woods), whose 15-year-old daughter Janice (Willa Holland) is attracted to a local man with an intellectual disability, Jeremy Niles (Dominic Purcell). Heddon often bullies Jeremy and believes Jeremy is stalking his daughter.