Cape Fear

1991

Action / Crime / Thriller

93
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 75% · 57 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 220664 220.7K

Plot summary

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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Top cast

Robert De Niro as Max Cady
Juliette Lewis as Danielle Bowden
Jessica Lange as Leigh Bowden
Nick Nolte as Sam Bowden
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2 hr 8 min
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2 hr 8 min
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2 hr 7 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by johnny-08 7 / 10

'Counselor, could you be there?'

Last night on TV there was "Casino" and today "Cape Fear" so I decided to take a look again at those two Scorsese movies. What I remembered from first viewing of "Cape Fear", about 8 years ago, is that that was one scary movie. I was only a kid back then, but even after all these years I felt again that this movie gives great doze of fear. Mostly it is because of brilliant portrayal coming from Robert De Niro (Max Cady is definitely not kind of guy who you wanna meet) and great Martin Scorsese ability to 'manufacture' terrifying scenes (for example when Nolte is hiding behind trash cans and when De Niro says: 'Counselor, could you be there?' - that one reminded me of Walter Hill's "The Warriors" and Luther in the same movie). Scorsese + De Niro (his all time favorite) never fails to deliver when they have as good script as this. Here, there is relationship between lawyers and clients, parents and children; also law in America is comprehended, where are holes in system, what can or cannot man do to protect his family and so on. I also read some of the comments that compare this one with the original and spits on this movie. To those people I say that this is an Oscar winning picture for some remakes I have seen in my life. If Mitchum and Peck (stars from the original) gave their blessing why can't you? So, I advise you to take a look at this Scorsese picture because it's scary, with Hitchcock elements and great acting coming from all actors involved. This is a great horror/thriller!!!

Reviewed by harrishcraig 6 / 10

Great Actors / Well Made / Flawed Script

The film is overlong and fails to build suspense. The game of cat and mouse never turns the tables and watching the same cat play with a mouse becomes monotonous very quickly. The thrills of this thriller are pedestrian and this great role for Robert De Niro overwhelms the film as a whole. The story is not coherent and lacks credibility necessary to truly bring terror or suspense to a viewer.. I do recommend this film as the role is a great one for De Niro but the film itself is a puzzle of mediocrity. I read that the script had 24 drafts and this may be part of the problem. Obviousness. Hollywood crap.

Try The Silent Partner with Eliot Gould and Christopher Plummer for a great example of thrilling cat and mouse.

Reviewed by Xstal 7 / 10

No Escaping Fear...

Sent to jail for a crime he did commit, a newly released felon has some pain he's to inflict, on the lawyer that defended him, who gave him many years, for the scars of his internment that he carries and he wears, stalking his prey without cover or disguise, the family of Sam Bowden see their world start to capsize, a vengeance full of hate, a psychopath intent, many years of brewing, chewing, digest and ferment.

Robert De Nero delivers a tremendous performance as Max Cady who leaves you under no illusion of the torture he intends to inflict, psychological and physical, on the family of the man responsible for his incarceration. Nick Nolte plays Nick Nolte, not quite as elegantly as Gregory Peck.

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