Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
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- Animal harm
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Character
Earnest, classical in form, grave and bleak.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Robert De NiroMax Cady
- Nick NolteSam Bowden
- Jessica LangeLeigh Bowden
- Juliette LewisDanielle Bowden
- Joe Don BakerClaude Kersek
- Robert MitchumLieutenant Elgart
- Gregory PeckLee Heller
- Martin BalsamJudge
- Illeana DouglasLori Davis
- Fred ThompsonTom Broadbent
Crew
- Martin ScorseseDirector
- Wesley StrickScreenplay
- John D. MacDonaldNovel
- Freddie FrancisDirector of Photography
- Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
- Elmer BernsteinOriginal Music Composer
- Thelma SchoonmakerEditor
- Barbara De FinaProducer
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Pairings
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Similar in taste
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