Should you watch Cape Fear?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Cape Fear
Film · 1991
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.
The sides of Cape Fear
- A lawyer who buried evidence at a rape trial
- Max Cady out of prison after 14 years
- A family hunted on a houseboat
Cape Fear is good for you if…
- you like a stalker closing in on a family night after night.
- you want Robert De Niro as a tattooed, Bible-quoting ex-convict.
Cape Fear is bad for you if…
- you can't watch sexual violence and a man preying on a teenage girl.
- you can't stand brutal beatings and a bloody finale.
About: revenge · guilt · family · justice
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