Category: Thriller

Year: 2011

Rating: - ()

Director: Rod Lurie

Language: English

Release Date: 16 September 2011 (USA) See more »

Taglines: Everyone Has a Breaking Point See more »

Writers:Rod Lurie (screenplay), David Zelag Goodman (earlier screenplay), and 2 more credits »

Movie 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.

Cast:
Alexander Skarsgård - Charlie
James Marsden - David Sumner
Kate Bosworth - Amy Sumner
Dominic Purcell - Niles
James Woods -
Laz Alonso - Deputy John Burke
Willa Holland - Janice
Walton Goggins - Daniel
Rhys Coiro - Norman
Anson Mount - Coach Stan Milkens
Billy Lush - Chris 'Big Brain'
Courtney Shay Young - Tambourine Girl
Kristen Shaw - Abby
Drew Powell - Bic
Grant Case - Blackwater Football Player
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Sound Mix: SDDS

Color: Color

Filming Locations: Bossier City, Louisiana, USA

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• Thriller

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Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release Year: 1971
Country: USA, UK
Runtime: 118
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

The knock at the door meant the birth of one man and the death of seven others!

Sometimes a man is forced to defend his honor.

Banned In The UK

In the eyes of every coward burns a straw dog.

How far will a man go to protect his wife and his home?

Every man dreads the day he might be forced to defend his wife and his home

No good, no bad, no justice

Every man has a breaking point.

You can push a guy to the limit...But expect consequences.

BANNED for 18 years...Now unleashed, UNCUT! (UK DVD release)

Writing by: Gordon Williams - (novel "The Siege of Trenchers Farm") (as Gordon M. Williams)
David Zelag Goodman - (screenplay) and
Sam Peckinpah - (screenplay)

Produced by: Daniel Melnick - producer
James Swann - associate producer

Cast: Dustin Hoffman - David Sumner
Susan George - Amy Sumner
Peter Vaughan - Tom Hedden
T.P. McKenna - Major John Scott
Del Henney - Charlie Venner
Jim Norton - Chris Cawsey
Donald Webster - Riddaway
Ken Hutchison - Norman Scutt
Len Jones - Bobby Hedden
Sally Thomsett - Janice Hedden
Robert Keegan - Harry Ware

Music: Jerry Fielding
Official Website: Visit Website


Plot Outline: A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Plot: Dustin Hoffman plays a regular American mathematician, who gets into some trouble with local bullies. He is made fun of and then his wife is raped. When they attack his home, he fights back. His outbreak of violence is extreme.

Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
At the end of the movie there is a teaser-trailer for a (never to be released) History of the World: Part II, featuring a Viking burial, a "Hitler on Ice" number and a science fiction "Jews in Space".

Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Crew or equipment visible: As David and Amy Sumner drive up to their house for the first time, the camera crew is reflected in the cars side window.

Trivia: There are 16 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Among the actors initially considered for the role of David Sumner were Donald Sutherland, Jack Nicholson and Sidney Poitier. Actresses originally considered and/or auditioned for the role of Amy were Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rampling and Helen Mirren.
• The title comes from the Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, who wrote, "Heaven and earth are not humane, and regard the people as straw dogs."
• In order to express a sick enjoyment in the scene where Dustin Hoffman beats the man on the floor to death, he requested that there would be coconuts there for him to smash. In one shot you can actually see a bit of coconut flying off, which Sam Peckinpah passed off as brain matter.

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