Cape Fear

Director: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Robert De Niro, Juliette Lewis, Jessica Lange, Nick Nolte, Joe Don Baker

Year: 1991 Running Time: 122 mins Rating:

Martin Scorsese's violent remake of the 1962 thriller, starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange. A psychopathic ex-con seeks revenge against his defence lawyer.

Review

Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is a maniac with a mission- - to exact his revenge on the lawyer (Nick Nolte) who suppressed evidence that would have saved him from 14 years in jail. Cady traps the daughter (Juliette Lewis), menaces the wife (Jessica Lange) and finally catches up with the whole family on a houseboat in a storm. Martin Scorsese crams his stonking remake of the 1962 thriller with great shocks, De Niro is unimagiinably evil and there are amusing cameos by stars from the original -- Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck and Martin Balsam.