If you loved In the Heat of the Night, try Cape Fear

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theysit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to In the Heat of the Night, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Cape Fear is

The North Carolina coast in autumn, salt wind rattling an old dock. A courtroom verdict returns a felon to the street. A man in his fifties measures the distance between law and vengeance. The lawyer’s front door creaks open one morning to a legal pad filled in careful block letters. A Hitchcock homage that forgets his lighter touch.

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