This is a film in which nothing will be known about Doob's backstory, and most of the strong supporting cast is wasted. Doob taunting Karen and Mack in the courtroom after the case against him is thrown out is a classic piece of despicable behaviour.īut the weaknesses of the material are quickly apparent. Sally Field dominates the film and delivers a committed performance, while Kiefer Sutherland does his part by creating in Robert Doob a truly hate-worthy piece of white trash, a psychopath driven by the basest animal instincts to copulate and kill. Forcing Karen McCann to listen-in over a cell phone as her daughter is assaulted adds to the sense of a parent's helplessness and increases the justification for her fury. The film does try, and Schlesinger raises the violence quotient by ensuring that the two rape and murder scenes are harrowing and painful to watch. 45 (1981), squeezed the concept dry a good 15 years before Eye For An Eye.
#Eye for an eye 1996 movie#
That movie and all its sequels and imitators, including women revenge fantasies in such fare as Ms. The urbanite victim frustrated by the justice system and deciding to turn to vigilantism is at least as old as Charles Bronson in Death Wish (1974). But Karen will learn that extracting revenge is much more difficult than she imagined.ĭirected by John Schlesinger and adapted from the Erika Holzer novel, Eye For An Eye has above-average talent working with below average material. In desperation, Karen turns to a group of grieving parents who appear to be facilitating vigilante justice, including Sidney Hughes (Philip Baker Hall). She tracks Doob's movements and begins to suspect that he is about to rape and murder again. She joins a victim support group where she befriends the sympathetic Angel Kosinsky (Charlayne Woodard), and secretly starts plotting to take justice into her own hands.
But Doob escapes justice on a technicality and is released, infuriating Karen. Detective Joe Denillo (Joe Mantegna) arrests lowlife delivery man Robert Doob (Kiefer Sutherland), and with strong DNA evidence linking him to the crime, a conviction appears likely. On the day of Megan's birthday, a home intruder violently rapes and kills Julie. Karen and Mack McCann (Sally Field and Ed Harris) have two daughters, teenager Julie (Olivia Burnette) and the much younger Megan (Alexandra Kyle).
#Eye for an eye 1996 tv#
A mother's vigilante justice drama, Eye For An Eye works hard to raise a sweat but remains just one notch above TV movie fare.
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