Straw Dogs Page #3

Synopsis: Screenwriter David Sumner travels with his wife Amy in his Jaguar to her homeland Blackwater, in the Mississippi. Amy's father has passed away and David intends to write his screenplay about Stalingrad in the house. David hires the contractor Charlie and his team to repair the roof of the Barn. Amy was the sweetheart of Charlie when she lived there and neither him nor his crew show respect to her. Charlie invites David to hunt deers with his group and him but they leave David alone in the woods and rape Amy. She does not tell to David what happened but when the drunken coach Tom Heddon calls Charlie and his friends to hunt down the slow Jeremy Niles that likes his daughter, David decides to protect not only Jeremy, but also Amy and his honor.
Director(s): Rod Lurie
Production: Sony Pictures/Screen Gems
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
41%
R
Year:
2011
110 min
$10,324,441
Website
716 Views


I saw your picture with him.

Charlie.

You used to see him, right?

Right?

Couple of times.

Couple of times?

Mmm.

Just a couple of times?

(TIRES SCREECH)

Well...

(ENGINE STOPS)

They may have

been memorable.

(CHUCKLES) Okay.

Are you jealous?

Hey, who ended up

with the girl in the end?

That would be

you, Mr. Sumner.

What are you doing?

(LAUGHS) Okay.

Okay, wait.

Just get off me.

Why?

You're crazy.

You're nuts.

(SINGSONG)

That's what they say.

What do you think?

It's beautiful.

There's a lot of

history here.

(CHUCKLES)

That's putting it mildly.

Come on, catch up!

AMY:
It's worse

than I thought.

DAVID:
Don't worry about it.

We're gonna fix it up.

Fix it up, make it

better than it was before.

I hope so.

Is that your father's car?

Yeah.

How much are we

getting from FEMA,

like eight K?

8.2 K.

That's just a bit

more than Charlie bid.

Give him the balance.

(CHUCKLES) Why?

Why?

Help out your friends.

Baby, Charlie and

the boys don't need help,

they need work.

You can spend the rest

on your adoring wife.

I want to see

the rest of the house.

Show me. Come on.

You okay?

Yeah.

Flutie!

(KISSES)

(HEY GOOD LOOKIN'

PLAYING OVER STEREO)

# Hey, good lookin'

(SINGING ALONG)

What you got cookin'?

(TURNS UP VOLUME)

Found my parents'

zydeco collection.

Your parents were

some pretty cool cats.

Yeah.

(HUMMING ALONG)

All right.

(MUSIC STOPS)

Guess my classical music

will have to do when I work.

Hey, this room is amazing.

I can't wait to work in here.

Yeah.

This is so great.

You like it?

Yes, I love it.

It's amazing.

Hello.

I remember when

my daddy got that deer.

When he put up that trophy,

we had this huge party,

like he'd won

the Super Bowl or something.

Did he get him with that?

That would be some

kind of overkill.

Did your father

ever take you hunting?

(CHUCKLES)

Oh. Honey.

You know a lot about a lot,

you don't know sh*t

about Southern daddies

and their Southern daughters.

(HORN HONKING OUTSIDE)

I think the movers are here.

AMY:
I'm gonna get

down to the store

to get some groceries

before it closes, you know.

DAVID:
Yeah,

that's a good idea.

Just want to change first.

I'll take care of this.

Actually, I'm gonna take

my daddy's Olds, more room.

(FUR ELISE PLAYING)

(DOOR OPENS)

(GRUNTS)

(DAVID TYPING)

Hi.

I found a way

to get Khrushchev

in on the action.

I'm gonna make him

a friend of Yuri's.

Khrushchev was in Stalingrad?

He was a hero in Stalingrad.

I'll bet that was

your daddy's chair.

Every chair was

my daddy's chair.

I'm glad we came.

Just worried it'll

be too quiet for you.

Quiet's what I want.

I like quiet.

Too boring.

I like boring.

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Rod Lurie

Rod Lurie (born May 15, 1962) is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic. more…

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