After working collectively on their third stone-cold traditional, Goodfellas, director Martin Scorsese and star Robert De Niro reunited on a moderately surprising film, the 1991 thriller Cape Concern. The psychological thriller was a remake of a 1962 movie of the identical title, starring Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum. Cape Concern gave De Niro one in all his most despicable characters; definitely till his antagonist in his latest film with Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon. The movie was launched to principally optimistic evaluations, and appreciable field workplace success. Whereas Cape Concern has remained constantly common within the three-plus many years since its debut, it is strictly a tier-two Scorsese film, which implies that it most likely will not be primary on most individuals’s watchlists. Audiences that also have not checked it out haven’t got for much longer to take action, because the movie will depart Netflix on the finish of this month.
Cape Concern options De Niro as Max Cady, a convicted legal who’s launched from jail ahead of anticipated, solely to wreak vengeance on the household of the lawyer who bought him sentenced. The movie additionally options Nick Nolte because the lawyer, Juliette Lewis because the lawyer’s daughter, and Jessica Lange as his spouse. Whereas Scorsese is understood to direct a industrial potboiler sometimes purely to fulfill one in all his inventive itches, he agreed to direct Cape Concern out of gratitude for Common, after the studio stood by him throughout an argument round The Final Temptation of Christ. The deal paid off for each events, with the movie grossing over $180 million on the worldwide field workplace, towards a reported funds of $35 million.
‘Cape Concern’ Will Be Remade Once more Quickly
By the way, Steven Spielberg was initially connected to direct Cape Concern, however he dropped out to direct the landmark epic Schindler’s Checklist as an alternative. Scorsese injected the venture with a few of his signature sympathy for the satan, and was praised for paying tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. It is now sitting at a 76% rating on the aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes, the place the critics’ consensus reads, “Good and classy, Cape Concern is a gleefully mainstream shocker from Martin Scorsese, with a terrifying Robert De Niro efficiency.” A new tv remake, through which Javier Bardem will play the anti-hero, is being arrange by Apple.
You’ve till December 29 to look at De Niro’s Cape Concern on Netflix.
- Launch Date
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November 15, 1991
- Runtime
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128 minutes
- Writers
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John D. MacDonald, James R. Webb, Wesley Strick
