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Straw Dogs 113 minutes, UK (1971), 18
(3.0)
Rating: 3.0 Stars
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Dustin Hoffman in Straw Dogs

Peckinpah's psychological tour de force of murder and horror. A college couple from the US venture to darkest Cornwall, there to confront terrible, irrational violence

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Straw Dogs: Peckinpah devotees might have thought it strange that the director of The Wild Bunch, a man obsessed with the ways of the west and frontier existentialism, would venture to Cornwall to make a movie. But the themes of his other movies are present and correct in Straw Dogs. "I've seen inbred, crazy people everywhere, even in my own family," said the director during filming...
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