Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- prison
- small town
- child abuse
- rape
- houseboat
- cigar smoking
- remake
- revenge
- stalking
- lawyer
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Joe Don Baker — Claude Kersek
- Robert Mitchum — Lieutenant Elgart
- Gregory Peck — Lee Heller
- Martin Balsam — Judge
- Illeana Douglas — Lori Davis
- Fred Thompson — Tom Broadbent
- Zully Montero — Graciella
- Craig Henne — Prisoner
- Forest Burton — Prisoner
- Edgar Allan Poe IV — Prisoner
- Rod Ball — Prisoner
- Directed
- Martin Scorsese
- Written
- Wesley Strick
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 4,002 ratings
- Studio
- Amblin Entertainment, Cappa Productions, Tribeca Productions, Universal Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
