Top cast Edit. Rhys Coiro Norman as Norman. Billy Lush Chris as Chris. Drew Powell Bic as Bic. Kristen Shaw Abby as Abby. Megan Adelle Melissa as Melissa. Randall Newsome Blackie as Blackie. Tim J. Smith Larry as Larry as Tim Smith. Richard Folmer Pastor as Pastor. Rod Lurie. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Amy's father has died and David intends to write his Stalingrad screenplay in the house.
He hires contractor Charlie and his team to repair the barn roof. Amy used to be Charlie's sweetheart and he and his crew show her no respect now. Charlie invites David to hunt deer with him and his crew, but they leave David alone in the woods and rape Amy--who doesn't tell David about it. When drunken coach Tom Heddon calls Charlie and his friends to hunt down slow Jeremy Niles, who likes his daughter, David decides to protect not only Jeremy, but also Amy and her honor.
Everyone Has a Breaking Point. Rated R for strong brutal violence including a sexual attack, menace, some sexual content, and pervasive language. Did you know Edit. Trivia The film, a remake of the controversially violent movie, is considered fairly faithful to Sam Peckinpah 's original, though the location has been moved from Cornwall, England to the U.
Mississippi Gulf Coast, and the hero's profession has been changed from mathematician to screenwriter. Goofs After the fake hunt, the Sheriff asks David if his rifle is registered. In Mississippi, where the film is set, there is no state licensing or registration requirements for long guns. Alternate versions The versions released in India English original and Hindi dubbed are relatively shorter in duration as compared to the original. Connections Features Born Yesterday User reviews Review.
Top review. Strong cast - sad remake script. If the hushed nature of the theater crowed leaving at the end is any indication - they felt the same way. I feel the cast did well with what they had, but the script was lacking in too many ways. Where the version had tension and excitement, the version was often boring and all over the place. The whole thing just felt awkward and thrown together. There were only a handful of scenes where the movie actually had my attention - but they were few and far apart and short lived.
There were even moments that were so awkward they were actually uncomfortable. I expected so much more with such a classic movie base and wonderful cast - but ultimately it was disappointing.
Details Edit. Change the location from England to Mississippi, change a mathematician into a screenwriter, keep the bear trap and the cat found strangled, and it tells the same story. It is every bit as violent. I found it visceral, disturbing and well-made. James Marsden and Kate Bosworth star in the roles originally played by Dustin Hoffman and Susan George , as an intellectual and his wife who move to a rural area where he can work undisturbed.
There is something about this man and his sexy wife that disturbs the locals down at the pub, and what begins as a subtle competition over territorial rights in the Darwinian sense escalates implacably into a full-blown lethal struggle. The lesson learned is that the egghead contains the possibility of using great violence when his home and wife are threatened. At the beginning, he doesn't know that.
Something within me has shifted in the 40 years since "Straw Dogs" was released and its original X rating in England got it banned from theaters. Four decades of screen violence must have tempered me, and I am no longer as vulnerable to images of barbarism and mayhem.
Peckinpah at the time was notorious for his violence; his masterpiece " The Wild Bunch " was considered in some quarters to be unreleasable. I praised it, and yet drew the line at "Straw Dogs," which crossed some sort of line with me. Since Rod Lurie , the director of this version, cannot be accused of having softened the material, my own feelings must have changed.
Perhaps I am more in touch with them now and recognize how close to home the movie strikes. I fear the story's hero represents me and finds me lacking machismo. Not since grade school have I ever willingly been in a fistfight. I have never fired a rifle, except in ROTC classes, and never touched a handgun.
I avoid physical confrontation. When somebody tries to cut me off on an expressway, I let them. I depend on society to protect me. I have always feared I couldn't do it myself. A man isn't supposed to admit that, but there's no purpose in denying it. Now here is Marsden playing David, a Hollywood screenwriter who has moved with his wife, Amy Kate Bosworth , back to her old hometown on the Gulf Coast, where they will live in a handsome fieldstone house with a barn much damaged by a hurricane.
Amy was a cheerleader here in high school, left for California and has had a little success on a TV crime series. Their first day they go into a bar and grill where any sensible person would know to make an immediate U-turn and walk out again. You've seen this place in dozens of movies. Everybody knows one another. They inhabit a macho bar culture where violence is always close to the surface.
When the former beauty queen walks in with her new husband who wears glasses and drives a classic Jaguar of about the vintage of the Peckinpah movie , she is the immediate focus of passively aggressive attention.
Comments are made that are not quite intended to be heard. Charlie Alexander Skarsgard , Amy's high school boyfriend, comes over to their booth to say hello. He is tall, muscular, cold-eyed, superficially nice.
David treats him with just a shade too much friendliness. You know what I mean. He smiles too readily, falls into pleasant cadences and is subtly condescending. His attitude translates as: "I may not be a bar-bum redneck like you, but if it makes you feel better, I'll pretend to be. Bad luck. Charlie and his posse have been hired to repair the barn. An unspoken aggression develops. They arrive for work too early. David stupidly climbs their ladder in bedroom slippers to complain they were awakened.
One of the crew walks into the kitchen and helps himself to several beers, complaining they aren't cold enough.
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