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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.

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Cape Fear — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • November 13, 1991
  • Runtime
  • 128 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, Crime, Thriller
  • Director
  • Martin Scorsese

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Cape Fear — Cast

Nick Nolte photo Nick Nolte Sam Bowden Robert De Niro photo Robert De Niro Max Cady Jessica Lange photo Jessica Lange Leigh Bowden Juliette Lewis photo Juliette Lewis Danielle Bowden Joe Don Baker photo Joe Don Baker Claude Kersek Robert Mitchum photo Robert Mitchum Lieutenant Elgart Gregory Peck photo Gregory Peck Lee Heller Martin Balsam photo Martin Balsam Judge

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