Released
Cape Fear
November 13 1991 (about 33 years ago)Rating
73
Based on
3430 reviews
Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Writer: Wesley Strick
- Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Runtime: 2 h 8 m
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Box office: $182,300,000
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Amblin Entertainment, Cappa Productions, Tribeca Productions, Universal Pictures
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.
