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.

• DirectorMartin Scorsese
• Release13 November 1991
• Genre
  Drama / Crime
• Duration2h 8m
• Budget$35,000,000
• Revenue$182,300,000
• Rate
  

  7.254
  3608 reviews
• Productions

  Amblin Entertainment, Cappa Productions, Tribeca Productions, Universal Pictures