

Cape Fear
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $35M
- Box office
- $182.3M
- Language
- English
- prison
- small town
- child abuse
- rape
- houseboat
- cigar smoking
- remake
- revenge
- stalking
- lawyer
- psychological thriller
- fear
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York City, New York6 Oct 1991
- TheatricalR15 Nov 1991
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical186 Mar 1992
United Arab EmiratesAE
- PhysicalDVD13 Sept 2021
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM9 Jan 1992
CanadaCA
- Theatrical13 Nov 1991
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical27 Feb 1992
BelgiumBE
- Premiere18Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival1 Mar 1992
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1627 Feb 1992
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical1 Dec 1991
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical156 Mar 1992
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1828 Feb 1992
FranceFR
- Theatrical1218 Mar 1992
- Physical18 Nov 2003
- Physical12Blu-Ray15 Nov 2011
- TheatricalRe-release21 Oct 2015
- Digital / OTTVOD5 Aug 2017
- Digital / OTT18Prime Video12 Oct 2022
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Cape Fear was released on 13 November 1991.
Audience reviews
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Eky
6/19/2012
Meet Max Cady, the most terrific villain role De Niro ever played simply because he successfully portrayed a crook who possesses a very complex personality of being stone-cold, violent, absolutely merciless, also on the other hand quite witty and charismatic to ever lure Danielle Bowden (Juliette Lewis) into his trap when he pretended to be her drama teacher so convincingly. Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear tells the stor…
- F8/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
7/2/2022
**A really very good movie, and proof that there are remakes that are really worth it for their quality and good execution.** I've just seen this movie (which I've actually seen on television, but without paying enough attention to a movie I want to write something about) and once again I was very impressed. The truth is that, without wanting to legitimize the practice, which is often taken to exaggeration, there …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/15/2023
"Cady" (Robert De Niro) is released from jail after serving eighteen years for rape. He alights on the doorstep of his erstwhile defending counsel "Bowden" (Nick Nolte) with his cigar and his red sports car and generally starts intimidating the man and his family. Why? Well it turns out that the lawyer had buried some evidence during the trial that may have cast doubt on the voracity of the evidence given by the vict…
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