Cape Fear (1991)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Wesley Strick, James R. Webb, John D. MacDonald

Cinematographer: Freddie Francis

Cast: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck

After completing a fourteen-year sentence for battery, Max Cady, a muscle-bound, be-inked psychopath, with his mind set upon revenge, relocates to the hometown of his former lawyer, whom he believes (with some justification) has wronged him, and sets about terrorising him and his family, in Scorsese’s highly stylised and vaguely overblown though thoroughly compelling remake of J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 film, which adds a certain level of moral ambiguity to the original's straight thriller plot. Iain.Stott