A History of Violence (Blu-ray) R
Tom Stall had the perfect life … until he became a hero.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Viggo Mortensen, William Hurt, Maria Bello & Ed Harris | |
Performer: | Stephen McHattie & Peter MacNeill | |
Directed by | David Cronenberg | |
Screenwriting by | Josh Olson | |
Composition by | Howard Shore | |
Produced by | David Cronenberg, Josh Braun & Justis Greene | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Suschitzky | |
Executive Production by | J.C. Spink, Kent Alterman & Cale Boyter |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C+ --
Reveals its hand way too early, and then proceeds to deliver a second hour that left me cold.
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Bowling Green Daily News
[I]t's tight, exciting, and, let's not forget, hilarious.
Premiere
Cronenberg plays that pulp-revenge thriller plot with a perfectly pitched straight face throughout...
Uncut
Rating: 8/10 --
A fascinating exercise in cinematic restraint resulting in a captivating, not to be missed film.
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Lyles' Movie Files
Cronenberg's masterful, intelligent and gripping meta-thriller leaves us pondering about our enduringly perverse desire for alternative realities, in which surrogate violent alter egos run righteously and preposterously amok.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
This story could easily have fallen into Quentin Tarantino pop-violence territory, but Cronenberg, with tremendous skill, manages to use Hollywood cliché to pose questions about the world in which we live.
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The List
A remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Product Description:
Canadian director David Cronenberg, whose impressive oeuvre includes such disparate works as THE DEAD ZONE, THE FLY, DEAD RINGERS, M. BUTTERFLY, and SPIDER, has made what might be the best film of his career with A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Loosely based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, the movie stars Viggo Mortensen as Tom Stall, a quiet, easygoing family man who runs a diner in a small Indiana town. But when two dangerous criminals come into the restaurant prepared to wreak havoc, Stall turns hero and shoots them both. After Stall's story is blasted all over the media, Philly mobster Carl Fogaty (an excellent Ed Harris) shows up, claiming that Tom is actually former hit man Joey Cusack--and they've got some important business to finish. While Stall insists that Fogaty is mistaken, his family--his wife, Edie (Maria Bello); teenage son, Jack (Ashton Holmes); and young daughter, Sarah (Heidi Hayes)--gets dragged into the danger that constantly threatens to explode. Cronenberg, whose films often deal with the fantastical, the futuristic, and the supernatural, has done a masterly job creating a wholly believable modern world where evil lurks just around the corner. Howard Shore's tense, moody music complements the outstanding acting in a violent, powerful film that is not to be missed.
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- Sales Rank: 114,778
- UPC: 883929037926
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