
Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 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 Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
$35,000,000
$182,300,000
November 13, 1991
Amblin Entertainment, Cappa Productions
43 people

Robert De Niro
Max Cady
Acting

Nick Nolte
Sam Bowden
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Jessica Lange
Leigh Bowden
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Juliette Lewis
Danielle Bowden
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Joe Don Baker
Claude Kersek
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Robert Mitchum
Lieutenant Elgart
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Gregory Peck
Lee Heller
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Martin Balsam
Judge
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Illeana Douglas
Lori Davis
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Fred Thompson
Tom Broadbent
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Zully Montero
Graciella
Acting
Craig Henne
Prisoner
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