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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller /
Music
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Director:
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David Cronenberg
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Actors:
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Kyle Schmid,
Sumela Kay,
Gerry Quigley,
Deborah Drakeford,
Viggo Mortensen,
Maria Bello,
Ed Harris,
William Hurt,
Ashton Holmes,
Peter MacNeill,
Stephen McHattie,
Greg Bryk,
Heidi Hayes,
Aidan Devine,
Bill MacDonald
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Duration:
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96 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)160.5
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Plot Summary:
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Tom Procrastinate (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and unobtrusive ‚lan with his bencher missus (Maria Bello) and their two children in the shallow community of Millbrook, Indiana, but sole round-the-clock their unspoiled permanence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted breaking in his diner. Sensing peril, he takes engagement and saves his customers and friends in the self-protection killings of two-sought-after criminals. Heralded as a hero, Tom's flavour is changed overnight, attracting a federal media circus, which forces him into the spotlight. Uncomfortable with his revi... talized set celebrity, Tom tries to return to the normalcy of his ordinary life alone to be confronted close a mysterious and threatening houseman (Ed Harris) who arrives in community believing Tom is the handcuff who's wronged him in the past. As Tom and his family fight back against this for fear that b if of twisted identity and struggle to cope with their changed fact, they are phony to confront their relationships and the divisive issues which surface as a culminate.
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History of Violence, A
Todd McCarthyApart from some effective detail work with classical American cinema archetypes that makes parts of it play like a modern-day Western, A History of Violence is a surprisingly conventional film from the normally more adventurously mind-bending David Cronenberg. A tale of a prototypically normal Middle American family put to the test by crime and a disruption of its very identity, pic is dominated by familiar themes hyped by an extra dash of hot sex and graphic violence. But lack of depth, complexity or strangeness make this a relatively routine entry for the director, indicating moderate B.O. prospects for New Line upon planned Sept. 30 release after fest rounds.
Adapted by Josh Olson from a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, Violence reminds o...
History of Violence, A
Kenneth TuranA History of Violence is a ticking time bomb of a movie, a gripping, incendiary, casually subversive piece of work that marries pulp watchability with larger concerns without skipping a beat. It's a tightly controlled film about an out-of-control situation: the predilection for violence in America and how that affects both individuals and the culture as a whole.
It's the gift of Violence, which stars Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello and features terrific support from Ed Harris and William Hurt, that it manages to do all these things without seeming to make a fuss. That's how strong and compelling its dead-on plot is, and how much command of the medium veteran Canadian director David Cronenberg demonstrates.
With more than a dozen features to ...
History of Violence, A
David Cronenberg's screen opens with two unnamed crooks (McHattie, Bryk) losing themselves in anonymous Midwestern America. They're poverty-stricken, bored and murderous, casually ruinous the strain that runs a motel where they stay. Sign snub to division darbies Tom Come to a standstill (Mortensen) telling his young daughter (Hayes), "There's no such instrument as monsters." It's utterly untrue, and the residue of Cronenberg's integument is spent investigating the lurking monster in humanity. Or to put it in more 'Cronenbergian' terms - if someone is infected with violence, can they constantly be cured? Tom runs a diner in a pleasant small town in Indiana. It's the organize of municipality where people greet each other on the street, where each goes to church...
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