Straw Dogs

Synopsis

An introverted, pacifist American mathematician and his young English wife relocate to an isolated stone farmhouse in her rural Cornwall hometown to escape American urban violence, but when local village workers rape the wife and lay siege to the farmhouse on a stormy night to seize a mentally disabled resident, the mathematician abandons his intellectual pacifism and unleashes savage, primal violence to defend his territory. Sam Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman's controversial, visceral psychological thriller masterpiece starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George.