# Cape Fear (1991)

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**Runtime**: 128 min
**Genres**: Drama, Crime, Thriller
**Directed by**: Martin Scorsese
**Written by**: Wesley Strick
**Starring**: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum

> *Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A North Carolina town, summer heat, a rusty jailhouse gate. 
A public defender's past mistake haunts him, a vengeful ex-con emerges from the shadows.
Scorsese revisits the darkness of American revenge.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, raw, unhinged

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 7.3/10 (240855 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 77% · Metacritic 73/100

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