X
- 1971
- R
- Cinerama Releasing
- 1 h 53 m
- 1971
- R
- Cinerama Releasing
- 1 h 53 m
Summary A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
Written By: David Zelag Goodman, Gordon Williams, Sam Peckinpah
- 1971
- R
- Cinerama Releasing
- 1 h 53 m
- 1971
- R
- Cinerama Releasing
- 1 h 53 m
Straw Dogs
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7.1
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Summary A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
Written By: David Zelag Goodman, Gordon Williams, Sam Peckinpah
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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36% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
73
64% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Though studio interference and his own personal demons hampered his later work, Straw Dogs shows a master in control of his effects, which made an artist of Peckinpah's sensibility an especially dangerous man.
One of the most ambiguous, neurotic, and disturbing of all American films.
If The Wild Bunch was Peckinpah's most violent film, surely Straw Dogs has to be his coarsest and most intense. Peace and love? Forget it.
Sitting through Peckinpah’s controversial classic is not unlike watching a lit fuse make its slow, inexorable way toward its combustible destination—the taut build-up is as shocking and vicious as its fiery conclusion is inevitable.
Despite Peckinpah’s artistry, there’s something basically grim and crude in Straw Dogs. It’s no news that men are capable of violence, but while most of us want to find ways to control that violence, Sam Peckinpah wants us to know that that’s all hypocrisy.
It is an intelligent movie, but interesting only in the context of his other works.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.1
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.1
79% Positive
11 Ratings
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21% Mixed
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Fotogramas de Plata
• 1 Nomination
