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Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.
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.Read moreLess
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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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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Robert De NiroMax Cady
Nick NolteSam Bowden
Jessica LangeLeigh Bowden
Juliette LewisDanielle Bowden
Joe Don BakerClaude Kersek
Robert MitchumLieutenant Elgart
Gregory PeckLee Heller
Martin BalsamJudge
Illeana DouglasLori Davis
Fred ThompsonTom Broadbent
Zully MonteroGraciellaExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Freddie Francis
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Producer
- Barbara De Fina
- Editor
- Thelma Schoonmaker
- Screenplay
- Wesley Strick
- Original Music Composer
- Bernard Herrmann
- Original Music Composer
- Elmer Bernstein