Cape Fear
United States
1991
128 Min
Color
English
Synopsis
Martin Scorsese’s remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year’s Goodfellas. After serving a lengthy prison sentence for a sexual assault, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) comes calling on the man who served as his public defender, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte). Max begins a campaign of harassment against the man and his family because Bowden buried a report that would have in all likelihood acquitted Cady of the charges against him. Bowden’s shaky ethics continue in his personal life as he is considering beginning an extramarital affair with colleague Lori Davis (Illeana Douglas), since he and his wife, Leigh (Jessica Lange) have had a difficult time coming back together since he has admitted to previous indiscretions. Cady infiltrates the family most insidiously by cultivating a relationship with the Bowden’s troubled teenage daughter, Danielle (Juliette Lewis), who is all the more susceptible to Cady’s advances because of her parents’ problems. Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck, the stars of the original film, have cameo appearances in this version of Cape Fear. De Niro and Lewis were both nominated for Academy Awards for their work in the film. —allmovie guide
Director
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese was born in New York City and soon developed a passion for cinema and a particular admiration for neo-realist cinema which inspired him and influenced his view or portrayal of his Sicilian heritage. After graduating from NYU Film School in 1966 and making a number of shorts, he shot his first feature-length film Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1968) with fellow student, actor Harvey Keitel, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker both of whom were to become long-term collaborators. Mean Streets followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the ‘Scorsese style’. After Scorsese directed Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the trio was reunited for the dark journey of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. After New York, New York Scorsese released Raging Bull. The acclaimed biography of middleweight fighter Jake LaMotta was followed by exploration of fans as pariah in The King of Comedy, dark-comic dreams in After Hours and pool sharks in The Color of Money. Scorsese outraged some religious… read more
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Vincent Bergeron
29Jan10
It makes look Scorsese like a dead director back then, but Juliette Lewis fascinates me with her devil yet innocent looks !
Jared Bynum
16Sep09
Nick Nolte plays a good guy.
Robert De Niro doesn't play a gangster.
And Juliette Lewis likes fingers in her mouth.
Oh, and cheeks make for good eats.
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By SAMO / Drella on October 25, 2009
Don’t listen to any of the detractors. Most of them quite simply miss the fucking point.
Scorsese made this film in the style of Brian De Palma and I find that really interesting. If you love… read review
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By Lucas Granero on September 14, 2009
Scorsese dice que esto es una remake de la pelicula de J.L Thompson, pero en realidad hace una cosa completamente distinta. Y eso, a mi parecer, es lo mas importante en el hecho de realizar algo que… read review
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