A convicted wife murderer returns twenty two years later to seek revenge on the daughter who help convict him.A convicted wife murderer returns twenty two years later to seek revenge on the daughter who help convict him.A convicted wife murderer returns twenty two years later to seek revenge on the daughter who help convict him.
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- TriviaThe film cast includes three Oscar nominees: Graham Greene, Theodore Bikel and Amy Irving. Leading man Donald Sutherland has a special Oscar but not a competitive.
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Is Donald Sutherland A Nice Guy Here?
Donald Sutherland is paroled from prison after 22 years. He was sent there for killing his wife, on the evidence of his daughter, Amy Irving. Now he wants to go home, repair the misunderstanding with her -- for he calmly insists that he did not do it -- and help take care of his grandson. After a while, he succeeds..... and then, of course, the story begins.
It's certainly a well cast movie, with Theodore Bikel and Graham Greene, and there's some startling photography of Glen Canyon in Utah. But it's another of the many, many movies that Sutherland made in this period, in which he played older men who you couldn't tell if they were nice guys or murderous creeps until, almost invariably, they turned out to be the latter. I grew tired of the trope and the casting early on, and a quarter of a century later, I see nothing here to change my mind.
It's certainly a well cast movie, with Theodore Bikel and Graham Greene, and there's some startling photography of Glen Canyon in Utah. But it's another of the many, many movies that Sutherland made in this period, in which he played older men who you couldn't tell if they were nice guys or murderous creeps until, almost invariably, they turned out to be the latter. I grew tired of the trope and the casting early on, and a quarter of a century later, I see nothing here to change my mind.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $151,860
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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