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Actors: Robert De Niro , Nick Nolte , Juliet Lewis
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Cape Fear |
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An ex-con is released after spending 14 years in prision for rape. Once he is released he goes after his lawyer for withholding evidence that could have given him a lesser sentence. He begins to terrorize the family and he goes after their daughter. The lawyer then tries to take the law into his own hands to protect his family.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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Max Cady (De Niro) has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for rape. Convinced that his defense lawyer Samuel Bowden (Nolte) withheld critical evidence from the trial that would have helped his case, Cady sets out to terrorize Bowden and his family. Director Martin Scorsese's remake of the 1962 thriller, based on a John D. MacDonald novel, ups the ante by making Cady a sort of embodiment of nasty undercurrents within the family: they've moved to Florida to "start over" after Bowden's adulteries, wife Leigh (Lange) still doesn't trust him, and daughter Danielle (Lewis) is at that dangerous age of 15. Although the movie's denouement in a rainstorm on a river achieves an almost comically horror-movie tone, its acting climax occurs a little earlier in a high school auditorium: originally scripted as a chase, Scorsese ordered De Niro and Lewis to ad lib a seduction instead, which they did in one magnificent, unforgettable take. An extra bonus are cameos by Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck, who played the leads in 1962, and Martin Balsam, who was also in the first film.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Robert Deniro plays a criminal recentley released from prison and takes revenge on his lawyer. Nick Noltes daughter is a main target for Deniro and adds a definite element of scariness to the movie.
--dino, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Cape Fear |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- hunted by killer/stalker
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
- Midwest
Water?
Yes
Water:
- drowning
- river
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
- sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Is this movie based on a
- book
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