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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Jim Harrison (novel)
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Release Date:
16 February 1990 (USA) more
Tagline:
A passion that cannot be denied. A betrayal that cannot be forgiven. more
Plot:
Michael "Jay" Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years. He's not quite sure what he's going to do... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kevin Costner ... Michael J. 'Jay' Cochran

Anthony Quinn ... Tiburon 'Tibby' Mendez

Madeleine Stowe ... Miryea Mendez

Miguel Ferrer ... Amador
Tomas Milian ... Cesar

James Gammon ... Texan

Jesse Corti ... Medero

Joaquín Martínez ... Mauro

John Leguizamo ... Ignacio, Amador's Cousin

Joe Santos ... Ibarra
Christofer de Oni ... Cisco Diaz, Ibarra's Man (as Cristofer de Oni)
Sally Kirkland ... Rock Star
Luis de Icaza ... Ramon
Gerardo Zepeda ... Elefante
Daniel Rojo ... Vaquero
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Runtime:
124 min | 104 min (director's cut) | Sweden:115 min (cut version)
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After Jim Harrison's novella was published in 1979, the film version of Revenge became something of a hot property in Hollywood, and had numerous directors attached over the years. Amongst these were John Houston, Sydney Pollack and Jonathan Demme. more
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs: After Jay and Miryea are through walking on the beach, Jay offers to make some lemonade. As he fumbles around nervously at his beach house, he ends up attempting to to make lemonade with what appears to be a bag of limes, instead of lemons. However, in Mexico yellow lemons are very rare. "Limones" are green and used to make "limonada". more
Quotes:
Michael J. 'Jay' Cochran: I killed a man who I hated today. more
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Soundtrack:
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20 out of 27 people found the following comment useful.
Shockingly Great Film, 8 September 2004
Author: Rob from United Kingdom

It has been nearly ten years since I last saw Revenge but I always have this fond memory of how much it had an impact on me as it was a very courageous project for Kevin Costner at that time. It started off like this Top Gun rip off then turned into this beautiful tale of love, passion and betrayal. Never have a seen a love story with so much chemistry and have an ending which Hollywood would never dream of now compared to back then.

Kevin Costner is an air pilot leaving the Navy to visit a very old friend Anthony Quinn. I can't remember why they were both such good friends to start off with, I think it was something to do with them both being in a war together or something along those lines. In the time they have been apart Quinn has married a beautiful women played by Madeline Stowe and he takes no time in getting them both acquainted. And in no time Costner and Stowe become a little to friendly and start to fall for each other but fight their best to avoid this.

What works perfectly is how Quinn knows how beautiful his wife is and how much he really knows without saying how much Costner wants her. This adds to the tension as he always makes Costner feel uncomfortable by asking him questions about how beautiful she is. It all erupts to you know what and I think most of the end is more like a western than anything. This is what turned the film around for me as they are some truly brutal scenes in this film and that's when the story really begins and the revenge from both sides of the story begin to take turn.

By the end of the film I was just surprised at how rare a film like this was back in the day when films weren't completely apart of Hollywood and followed there own path into making a decent film which is what Revenge delivers. Anthony Quinn didn't make many more films after this so this was a rare gem as his Quinn goes and this is a movie which you wouldn't expect Costner to be taking the lead.

Fantastic

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