Cape Fear

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there in the light. Except fear.

Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte)is a small-town corporate attorney/'Leave It to Beaver' type family-man. Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen 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, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Direction

Martin Scorsese

Screenplay

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John D. MacDonald

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James R. Webb

Wesley Strick