straw dogs

Director: rod lurie

Actor: james marsden,kate bosworth,alexander skarsgård,james woods

Data Published: Fri Sep 16 2011

Genres: Action,Drama,Thriller

Key Words: rape,sexual humiliation,rape victim,gang rape,panties pulled down

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0999913/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Dogs_(2011_film)

Description: Straw Dogs is a movie starring James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, and Alexander Skarsgård. Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a...

Plot: Scriptwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) and his wife Amy (Kate Bosworth) relocate to rural Mississippi where Amy grew up, to rebuild the house of Amy's recently deceased father and to allow David to finish a script. While in town one afternoon, David meets Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård) and his three friends, Norman (Rhys Coiro), Chris (Billy Lush), and Bic (Drew Powell). David is intimidated by the men but hires them to fix their roof. He also meets Tom Heddon (James Woods), a former high school football coach whose 15-year-old daughter Janice (Willa Holland) is attracted to a local man with an intellectual disability, Jeremy Niles (Dominic Purcell). Heddon often bullies Jeremy and believes he is stalking his daughter. Charlie and his friends soon begin taunting David, which later escalates into harassment as they make crude remarks towards Amy and play their music loud to distract David while he writes, while taking longer than expected to fix the roof. One Sunday after church, Tom attacks Jeremy for talking to Janice, and Amy comes to his defence, but David warns her to not get involved. Later that night back at home, David discovers their cat strangled and hung up in the bedroom closet. Amy is positive Charlie and his friends are to blame as they disappeared from the church barbeque for a few hours earlier, but David is hesitant to confront them. When he does finally question them, the men deny everything. Charlie invites David to go deer hunting. While David is out in the woods with two of the men, Charlie forces his way into the house and rapes Amy—believing that Amy's resistance is fake and that Amy actually wants him. During the process, he inquires Amy, as to if she ever wanted him to have sex with her this way, and that is how David and her go through it. Afterwards, he realizes that Amy did not want this, and is stunned. Norman arrives and also rapes Amy while Charlie watches. When David returns, Amy does not to tell him, because she had led Charlie on earlier. David fires the men the next day for taking too long to fix the roof and the men leave, after David pays them $5000. David and Amy go to a local football game. Janice lures Jeremy to enter an empty locker room and attempts to give him oral sex, while Tom notices her absence and begins looking for her. As he approaches, Jeremy, scared of Heddon discovering them, holds his hand over Janice's mouth to silence her, accidentally smothering her to death. He runs away just as Tom informs Charlie and his friends of Janice's disappearance. They all suspect Jeremy has done something to her. At the game, Amy has haunting flashbacks about the rapes and asks David to take her home. On the way, she tells him she wants to return to Los Angeles, surprising him and causing him to accidentally run over Jeremy who is standing in the road. David and Amy take him back to their home and call an ambulance. Charlie and Norman overhear the ambulance call on a police scanner, and inform Tom. They all drive to David and Amy's house, and demand the couple hand Jeremy over, but David refuses. The Sheriff then arrives but Tom shoots him dead; then the men attempt to enter the house. David and Amy barricade the doors shut and take Jeremy upstairs to the bedroom and prepare to fight off the men. When Chris attempts to enter through a window, David nails his hands to the wall with a nail gun, his throat fatally exposed to broken glass. When Tom tries to follow, David burns his face with hot oil. Tom and Charlie ram down one of the house's walls with Charlie's pick-up truck, but Charlie is knocked unconscious. David fights Tom off and causes him to shoot himself in the foot. David then shoots Tom and beats Bic to death with a fireplace poker. Upstairs, Amy and Jeremy are attacked by Norman, who has climbed in through the window. Norman is attempting to rape Amy again when David and Charlie appear. Charlie and Norman draw on each other when Norman threatens to kill Amy. Amy shoots Norman, Charlie assaults and disarms her, then David jumps him. Charlie kicks David down the stairs and beats him up severely. While David lies prostrated on the floor, disarmed, Charlie prepares to shoot him in his head when Amy approaches from behind, pointing the gun at him. Turning to her, Charlie informs her the gun is empty, and says to her "I will always protect you, baby", when David rises behind him and slams a bear trap down on his head, which shuts and ensnares him. Charlie slowly dies. As sirens are heard, with the adjacent barn in flames, David says "I got 'em all".