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Cape Fear
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Cape Fear is a 1991 American crime, drama, and thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay was written by Wesley Strick and James R. Webb, with Elmer Bernstein composing the score. The cast includes Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, and Juliette Lewis. Production was handled by Barbara De Fina for Amblin Entertainment and TriBeCa Productions, while Freddie Francis served as director of photography and Thelma Schoonmaker as film editor.
The narrative is set in North Carolina, though filming took place in California, Florida, and Georgia. The film has a runtime of 128 minutes and was produced with a budget of 35,000,000. It was distributed by Universal Pictures and Netflix. The story centers on the theme of revenge.
Cape Fear received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. It has a TMDb vote average of 7.259 based on 3,848 votes and an IMDb rating of 7.3 from 244,304 votes. The film generated a revenue of 182,300,000.
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7.3Sam 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.
Cast
- Robert De Niro as Max Cady
- Nick Nolte as Sam Bowden
- Jessica Lange as Leigh Bowden
- Juliette Lewis as Danielle Bowden
- Joe Don Baker as Claude Kersek
- Robert Mitchum as Lieutenant Elgart
Themes
- prison
- small town
- child abuse
- rape
- houseboat
- cigar smoking
- remake
- revenge
- stalking
- lawyer
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Martin Scorsese
- Screenplay by
- Wesley Strick
- Based on
- Cape Fear , by James R. Webb The Executioners , by John D. MacDonald
- Produced by
- Barbara De Fina
- Starring
- Robert De Niro Nick Nolte Jessica Lange Juliette Lewis Joe Don Baker Robert Mitchum Gregory Peck Martin Balsam Illeana Douglas Fred Thompson
- Cinematography
- Freddie Francis
- Edited by
- Thelma Schoonmaker
- Music by
- Bernard Herrmann
- Production companies
- Amblin Entertainment Cappa Films Tribeca Productions
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release date
- November 15, 1991 ( 1991-11-15 )
- Running time
- 128 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $35 million
- Box office
- $182.3 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Cape Fear is a 1991 American southern gothic psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Wesley Strick. It is a remake of the 1962 film, which was based on the 1957 novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald. The film stars Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Joe Don Baker, and Juliette Lewis. Robert Mitchum has a small role in the film, while Gregory Peck (in his final theatrical film role) and Martin Balsam make cameo appearances, all three starred in the original film.
The film tells the story of a convicted rapist who, by using his newfound knowledge of the law and its numerous loopholes, seeks vengeance against a former public defender whom he blames for his fourteen years in prison due to purposefully botching his legal defense.
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