Eye for an Eye

Movie

1996

1h 41m

English

Thriller

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6.1

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It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.

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Eye for an Eye

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1996

1h 41m

English

Thriller

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Cast

Karen McCann

Robert Doob

Mack McCann

Dolly Green

Angel Kosinsky

Detective Sergeant Denillo

Julie McCann

Megan McCann

Martin

Sidney Hughes

Susan Juke

Judge Arthur Younger

District Attorney Howard Bolinger

Peter Green

Tina

Redheaded Woman

Teacher

Tony

Office Staff (as Iris Fields)

Ross Bagley

Sean

Michael B. Silver

Assistant

Peter Kent

Detective #2 (uncredited)

Eric Morris

Columnist

Directed By: John Schlesinger

Written By: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, + 1 more

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CinemanicBonkers says...

8 years ago

Don't mess with Sally Field, now she's a fighter, and gets what she wants, a eye for an eye, she means it. 7/10

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RomeroLivesOn says...

one year ago

A Sally Field version of one of them shitty afternoon melodramas turned up to 11 until it teeters on becoming Death Wish. I very rarely agree with Roger Ebert (who gave thumb down to a lot go my favorite movies - see The Thing etc. etc. - that dude needn't have bothered with certain whole genres altogether and was a sucker for obvious Oscar bait) but he was right on the money with this one when he summed it up as "a particularly nasty little example of audience manipulation". For once, I couldn't have put it better.

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nickyd says...

one year ago

Gross right-wing propaganda that tries to convince you that laws in this country - a country which has the highest incarceration rates IN THE WORLD - are too flimsy, and that only vigilante justice can make up the difference. Barf.

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CinemaSerf

2 years ago

It's odd to see Sally Field with grittier role, and she isn't half bad here as the mother who has to listen on the telephone as her seventeen year old daughter is raped and murdered. "Karen" and husband "Mack" (Ed Harris) are further devastated when an administrative cock-up causes the apprehended a More

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