Cape Fear

Name: Cape Fear
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1991

Martin Scorsese • 128 min • 1991

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“Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.”

Nick Nolte, Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum

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Synopsis

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.