Straw Dogs

1971 116 min Thriller, Drama, Crime

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.

IMDb 7.4 RT 82 Metacritic 75

budget $2,200,000 earnings $3,251,794 return 1.5x

director Sam Peckinpah

writers David Zelag Goodman, Sam Peckinpah

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