Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) is a former Atlanta public defender who seeks to start a life in corporate law for him and his family in the quiet resort town of New Essex, North Carolina. Max Cady (Robert De Niro) is a client Sam defended 14 years prior to the setting of the movie. Cady, who was being tried for the rape of a 16-year-old girl, was illiterate at the time of the trial and was unable to read a report Sam kept hidden from him and the court that could have lightened his sentence or acquitted him. The report stated that the victim was promiscuous, a material fact in a rape case because the intercourse must have been non-consensual. Now a well-read, recently-released ex-convict, Cady stalks Bowden and plans to seek vengeance for his imprisonment. The movie's climax has the two men engaging in a showdown during a severe thunderstorm on Cape Fear.
2 min 36 sec
Views
24,058
Posted On
October 12, 2007
Martin Scorsese
Writer
Wesley Strick
Studio
Universal Pictures
Release
November 13, 1991
Robert De Niro
Nick Nolte
Jessica Lange
Juliette Lewis
Joe Don Baker
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