# Primal Fear (1996)

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**Runtime**: 130 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
**Directed by**: Gregory Hoblit
**Written by**: Ann Biderman, Steve Shagan
**Starring**: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand

> *Sooner or later, a man who wears two faces forgets which one is real.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Chicago cathedral at dusk a lone choir bell tolls 
Prosecutor faces defense attorney over altar boy's fate 
Gregory Hoblit directs a complex moral maze.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, mindfuck, paranoid, raw

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 7.7/10 (279420 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 77% · Metacritic 47/100

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