Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1991-11-13) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 2 Oscars. 5 wins & 21 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $79,091,969 |
| Screen: | John D. MacDonald, James R. Webb, Wesley Strick |
| Productions: | Amblin Entertainment, Cappa Productions, Tribeca Productions, Universal Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 380: Robert De Niro - Max Cady
- 1733: Nick Nolte - Sam Bowden
- 4431: Jessica Lange - Leigh Bowden
- 3196: Juliette Lewis - Danielle Bowden
- 10671: Joe Don Baker - Claude Kersek
- 10158: Robert Mitchum - Lieutenant Elgart
- 8487: Gregory Peck - Lee Heller
Crews
- 5629: Freddie Francis - Director of Photography - Camera
- 17877: Alan Hicks - Set Decoration - Art
- 1032: Martin Scorsese - Director - Directing
- 2242: Ellen Lewis - Casting - Production
- 17879: John D. MacDonald - Novel - Writing
- 17880: Wesley Strick - Screenplay - Writing
- 3661: Thelma Schoonmaker - Editor - Editing
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Reviews
Eky
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Meet Max Cady, the most terrific villain role De Niro ever played simply because he successfully portrayed a crook who possesses a very complex personality of being stone-cold, violent, absolutely merciless, also on the other hand quite witty and charismatic to ever lure Danielle Bow ....
Continue reading ->Filipe Manuel Neto
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**A really very good movie, and proof that there are remakes that are really worth it for their quality and good execution.** I've just seen this movie (which I've actually seen on television, but without paying enough attention to a movie I want to write something about) and once ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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"Cady" (Robert De Niro) is released from jail after serving eighteen years for rape. He alights on the doorstep of his erstwhile defending counsel "Bowden" (Nick Nolte) with his cigar and his red sports car and generally starts intimidating the man and his family. Why? Well it turns ....
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