Cape Fear Page #6

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Production: MCA/Universal Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
R
Year:
1991
128 min
3,293 Views


- I am settled down.

- What are you doing?

- It's nothing.

- Who was that?

- It's no one. Come on.

The fellow with the tie,

his wife took him away.

- I think he really hurt his arm.

- Mom!

- Strong drink you got there, mister.

- You said it.

Just put a little goldfish in it,

and you'll be fine.

You seem to be having a good time.

- I've been practicing.

- Practicing for what?

- How to fall on the floor?

- A life of debauchery.

Debauch, what?

Debauchery. It's a three-syllable word.

Making fun of me?

That's okay. No problem.

- I made you blush.

- Blush?

Yes. You're now the color

of your shirt, scarlet.

I had no business getting

stuck on a guy who was married.

- You certainly did not.

- I don't know what I was thinking.

God only knows.

Aren't I the bozo on this bus?

Oh, God. Lest you think that I slept

with this particular married guy-

That's your business. Not mine.

I don't want to make it sound like

I've been through a busload of them.

That's the way it sounded to me.

- He was the first.

- Oh, yeah.

- He was, I swear.

- Oh, yeah.

- Oh, boy.

- Tell it to the judge.

- Actually the rat stood me up today.

- Did he?

- Yes!

- What a shame.

I know.

So, now it's my turn. Where are you from?

Where am I from?

- You're gonna love this.

- Yes.

I'm from the Georgia State

Correctional Facility.

You think I'm joking? That's the truth.

I just got released from prison.

My god. This is the way

my day has been turning out.

Actually, it reminds me of a joke.

- Do you want to hear it?

- Tell me. Liven up the night.

An unmarried woman...

Wait a minute, that's not it.

- Come on, get the joke straight.

- Shut up. Let me do it.

An unmarried woman meets a guy...

...and he tells her he just got out of prison.

"What did you do?" she asks.

"I hacked my wife into 52 pieces

with a chain saw. "

She says, "So, you're single?"

- That's even funnier.

- Thank you.

- Could I ask you something?

- What?

- What did you do?

- I knew you were going to ask.

- I hacked my wife into 52 pieces.

- I was afraid you'd say that.

I'm a very small person, so maybe-

Maybe I can hack you into 40 pieces.

- What did you do, really?

- No, really, but what did you do?

There was this protest march

on this nuclear power plant and...

...when they came to arrest us...

...this macho sheriff got rough

with the lady behind me.

I popped the bastard,

so they gave me a little time for it.

I'm drinking a sea breeze.

I hope you can afford them.

You have to stay sober. If you ain't

sober, you're taking your chances.

Because I'm just one hell of an animal.

Yeah? Do tell.

Get you on this side, doll. Let's do this.

Who is Loretta anyway?

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Wesley Strick

Wesley Strick (born February 11, 1954) is an American screenwriter who has written such films as the comic-horror hit Arachnophobia, the Martin Scorsese remake of Cape Fear and the videogame adaptation Doom. Since 2015, Strick has worked as a writer/executive producer on The Man in the High Castle (Amazon TV series). more…

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