Cape Fear
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1991
2h 8m
R
English
Crime, Thriller
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Cape Fear
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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Cast
Max Cady
Sam Bowden
Leigh Bowden
Danielle Bowden
Claude Kersek
Lieutenant Elgart
Lee Heller
Judge
Lori Davis
Tom Broadbent
Graciella
Prisoner
Prisoner
Prisoner
Prisoner
Corrections Officer
Ice Cream Cashier
Racquetball Colleague
Racquetball Colleague
Detective
Parade Watcher
Parade Watcher
Parade Watcher
Waitress
Danny's Girlfriend
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Written By: Wesley Strick (Screenplay), John D. MacDonald (Novel)
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CinemaSerf
one year ago
"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 out that the law More
Filipe Manuel Dias Neto
2 years ago
**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 again I was ver More
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 again I was ver More
KevinSocial9697
/10 4 years ago
This might be Robert De Niro's (Max Cady) best performance as he plays a different from his usual character in this film and honestly, he is such a likeable actor but in this film, he is genuinely creepy in every way possible and you feel how these characters feel in this film as the film gives More
Eky
6 years ago
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 Bowden (Juliette Le More
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