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- 1991
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 1991
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
Summary Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 thriller. (Universal/Amblin)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Written By: John D. MacDonald, James R. Webb, Wesley Strick
- 1991
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
- 1991
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 2 h 8 m
Cape Fear
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8.4
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Summary Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 thriller. (Universal/Amblin)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Written By: John D. MacDonald, James R. Webb, Wesley Strick
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
73
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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A hypnotically engrossing thriller that spins along on the dreams and anxieties of its characters.
Martin Scorsese brings honor back to the remake. He shines up this reprise of the original with original brilliance
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 341 User Ratings
8.4
87% Positive
296 Ratings
296 Ratings
9% Mixed
30 Ratings
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4% Negative
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 341 User Ratings
8.4
87% Positive
296 Ratings
296 Ratings
9% Mixed
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
4% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
Great thriller with an interesting character Max Cady: on the one side a victim, on the other side the bad guy in this movie and on a vengeance. The movie is also interesting to show, that a man can terrorise another one legally.
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If this is Scorsese's bid for the commercial big time, then let the cash registers ring.
Impressive moviemaking, showing Scorsese as a master of a traditional Hollywood genre.
An exercise in audience manipulation, with every frame designed to stagger the senses.
The movie keeps insisting that the gruelling experience it's putting us through is really meant to edify us; it drags us into the mud and then tells us that we haven't got dirty.
Even as a simple genre picture it works only in fits and starts.
From the director of Goodfellas and Casino, it is now the time for me to review a underrated film that I absolutely love and that is without further a do Cape Fear. I am such a big fan of that film, I can watch for hours and hours and hours and not get bored at all. Now um (chuckles) I gotta warn ya that girl that woman played reminds of Emily Robinson from college and................. the only thing I don't like about it is that Robert DeNiro bites the woman's cheek off cause that really freaked me out. And also there's a scene that really made me laugh that Robert DeNiro is singing in tongues. So yeah, that's it.
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To Mourn And To Charge.
Cape Fear
Scorsese's calculatively planned and emotionally influenced revenge is both cheesy and smart. Enfolding layer after layer, the screenplay just keeps giving you back the thrills that were promised. Armed with such a buoyant script Scorsese is surprisingly chalky on terms of execution. With eerie camera work and ear numbing explosions blazing across the screen, the film makes you uncomfortable not significantly, but in its inadequacy to stay true to its tone. Brimmed with smart tricks to overpower each other on screen, Nolte and De Niro may not get a better role than this to go mano-y-mano on screen. From conversations to physical sequences, this meticulous script may have written people pleasing entertainment all over it, but there also resides a layered illuminating concept that is vivid enough to recite Bible and other mythological ideologies.
Mutilating every aspect of Nolte's possession; personal and professional, De Niro is on the podium with a sensational speech on mind and performance on his body language. Among many sharp encounters of his with multiple characters, the most riveting is the one he shares with Lewis. The entire conversation is a build up and the gist of the film itself, his rage that masks the entire screen to honesty is a testament to his majestic performance.
Walking parallel-y Nolte is a convincing flawed human whose family is at risk and even though he never gets to score on De Niro's level, his own resistance towards the concept of life and death is intriguing. Lewis and Lange are too impressive on their supporting role, especially the brattiness of Lewis and her gullible nature that denses up the storytelling. Scorsese fails to picturize the explicit writing on screen that every now and then raises questions. Cape Fear is through and through on clearly depicting the concept, the fear is genuinely felt by us.
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Martin Scorsese's remake of the 1962 classic.
Man leaves prison after 14 years & comes back to harass the lawyer who put him away & his family.
De Niro plays a sort of camp Harvey Keitel but is still pretty scary. Personally I preferred Robert Mitchum in the original.
The main thing that is better than the original are the women, especially a young Juliette Lewis as Danielle.
Nice to see three of the original cast in there but does get a bit silly towards the end.
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Sadly, this Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear is not a good movie as the original one actually was. A pretty ordinary and without particular merits movie that for more than one occasion even turns out to be boring and terribly over acted.
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Production Company
Amblin Entertainment,
Cappa Films,
Tribeca Productions
Release Date Nov 13, 1991
Duration 2 h 8 m
Rating R
Tagline The Bowden family has moved to New Essex.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
