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Cape Fear

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

1991 · R · 2h 8m

Directed by Martin Scorsese

7.3

TMDB audience score
4,078 votes, out of 10

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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.

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Cast

  • Nick Nolte
    Sam Bowden

  • Robert De Niro
    Max Cady

  • Jessica Lange
    Leigh Bowden

  • Juliette Lewis
    Danielle Bowden

  • 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

  • W. Paul Bodie
    Prisoner

  • Joel Kolker
    Corrections Officer

  • Antoni Corone
    Corrections Officer