Dog Eat Dog is a movie directed by Paul Schrader in 2016 and based on the book of the same name by Edward Bunker, first published in 1995. The movie features Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Matthew Cook, Omar J. Dorsey, Louisa Krause, Melissa Bolona, and others.
What users say
“The book is better than the movie”
But the movie is worth watching.
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Storyline
Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life. Troy, an aloof mastermind, seeks an uncomplicated, clean life but cannot get away from his hatred for the system. Troy constructs the perfect crime and they pull it off, but in the aftermath, they keep finding the law surrounding them wherever they go.
Movie vs Book
Year
2016
Minutes
93
Movie Rate
4.70
Source: IMDb
Year
1995
Pages
240
Book Rate
7.80
S: Goodreads
Book
Dog Eat Dog
Author: Edward Bunker
Country: USA
First published in: 1995
Length: 240 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“As an author, you can’t expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that’s what you hope for, you shouldn’t sell the rights.”
BERNARD SCHLINK (Writer)
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