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Watch Straw Dogs (2011), rated R, movie showing on September 16, 2011 in theaters wide. Straw Dogs is a Drama, Thriller, Adaptation, Suspense and Remake film. Straw Dogs movie stars are James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods and Dominic Purcell and directed by Rod Lurie. David and Amy Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father's death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie, leading to a violent confrontation. The film is distributed by Screen Gems. So download free Straw Dogs (2011) movie online.

The film was originally scheduled for release on February 25, 2011. However the date was pushed to September 16, 2011. 

The film began shooting on August 16, 2009 in Shreveport and Vivian, Louisiana. 

The film was shown at Brandeis University in a special pre-release screening on September 8. 

Straw Dogs received mostly mixed and negative reviews; Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 42% based on reviews from 102 critics, with the consensus "This remakes [sic] streamlines the plot but ultimately makes a fatal mistake: It celebrates violence". Metacritic gives the film a score of 45% based on 29 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". 

Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars stating that Straw Dogs "almost succeeds as an object lesson in the difference between being a man and being a macho animal. But it fails as a gripping home-invasion thriller". Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune called the film "a bird-brained remake" that is "miscast, barely functional in terms of technique, stupid and unnecessary" and rated it 1 out of 4 stars. Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe, wrote that watching Straw Dogs was like "being waterboarded by liberals outside a Democratic National Committee event". 

Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of a possible 4 stars, and states "This new version of "Straw Dogs" is a reasonably close adaptation of the 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah. 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", and said he preferred it to the original. Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News was also favorable towards the film, giving it 4 out of 5 stars, declaring that "while Lurie could have gone lighter on the symbolism, he ratchets up the tension with deft intelligence. He's not just making a thriller but a horror film, and we feel his own fear in every scene". 

 The film opened on September 16, 2011 with $1,980,000 for the day and took $5.1 million in its opening weekend.