Fear (1996)

Director:

James Foley

Writer (WGA):

Christopher Crowe (written by)

Release Date:

12 April 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

With boyfriends like this, who needs enemies? Not you.

Plot:

A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.

Plot Keywords:

Obsession | Teenage Girl | Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship | Fatal Attraction | Terror

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Mark Wahlberg	...	David McCall
Reese Witherspoon	...	Nicole Walker
William Petersen	...	Steve Walker
Amy Brenneman	...	Laura Walker
Alyssa Milano	...	Margo Masse
Christopher Gray	...	Toby
Tracy Fraim	...	Logan
Gary Riley	...	Hacker
Jason Kristofer	...	Terry
Jed Rees	...	Knobby
Todd Caldecott	...	Gary Rohmer
John Oliver	...	Eddie Clark
David Fredericks	...	Larry O'Brien
Ravinder Toor	...	Counterman
Andrew Airlie	...	Alex McDowell
Jo Bates	...	Julie Masse
Will Sengotta	...	Kid at Door
L. Harvey Gold	...	Peterman
Banner	...	Kaiser
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rana Morrison	...	Girl in Club (uncredited)

Directed by
James Foley

Writing credits (WGA)
Christopher Crowe		(written by)

Produced by
Brian Grazer	....	producer
Karen Kehela Sherwood	....	executive producer (as Karen Kehela)
Ric Kidney	....	producer
Karen Snow	....	producer

Original Music by
Carter Burwell

Cinematography by
Thomas Kloss		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
David Brenner

Casting by
Debra Zane

Production Design by
Alex McDowell

Art Direction by
Richard Hudolin

Set Decoration by
Dominique Fauquet-Lemaitre		(as D. Fauquet-Lemaitre)

Costume Design by
Kirsten Everberg

Makeup Department
Ian C. Ballard	....	key hair stylist (as Ian Ballard)
Victoria Down	....	key makeup artist
Sarah Koppes	....	hair stylist (as Sarah MacDonald)
Tina Louise Teoli	....	makeup artist
Jacky Wilkinson	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Tony Grob	....	production supervisor: Seattle
Colleen Nystedt	....	production manager
Karen Snow	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bonnie Benwick	....	second assistant director
Sara MacDonald	....	third assistant director
Gary Blair Smith	....	second assistant director: second unit

Art Department
Gordon Bellamy	....	sculptor
James Burrage	....	assistant set decorator
Lubor Cencak	....	scenic artist
Duff Chambers	....	construction foreman
Ron Clifford	....	construction foreman (as Ronald W. Clifford)
R.D. 'Luther' Fairbairn	....	assistant property master
Michelle Gasque	....	art department trainee
Jim Green	....	head greensman
Oliver Hajdu	....	art department consultant
John Hamilton	....	lead painter
Martin Hazenboom	....	lead carpenter
Erich Hepnar	....	lead greensman (as Erich J. Hepnar)
Donna Horn	....	set dresser
Paul Jenkinson	....	lead set dresser
John G. Kennedy	....	set dresser (as John Kennedy)
Peter Kennedy	....	standby painter
Jan Kobylka	....	construction coordinator
Barry Kootchin	....	head scenic artist
Susan Kosola	....	set dresser
Janis Lee	....	scenic artist
Malcolm MacLean	....	paint foreman
Michael McCombe	....	greensman: Seattle
Bridget McGuire	....	assistant art director
Jennifer Moore	....	property assistant
Bjorn Ollner	....	set designer
Elizabeth Patrick	....	set decoration buyer
Chris Prior	....	lead carpenter (as Christopher Prior)
Ken Rabehl	....	illustrator
Gillian Richards	....	scenic artist
Les Sand	....	lead greensman
Bill Thumm	....	property master
Ivana Vasak	....	set designer
Mary Buri	....	on-set prop assistant (uncredited)

Sound Department
Eric Batut	....	sound mixer
Joe Dorn	....	adr supervisor
Julia Evershade	....	sound editor
Julie Feiner	....	foley editor
Chris Glyn-Jones	....	boom operator
Marilyn Graf	....	foley mixer
Adam Jenkins	....	sound re-recording mixer
Ken Lee	....	boom operator
Steve Richardson	....	sound editor
Conrad Slater	....	sound mixer: Seattle
Hugo Weng	....	dialogue editor

Special Effects by
Dan Cervin	....	special effects technician

Stunts
Kevin J. Andruschak	....	stunts
James Bamford	....	stunts
Guy Bews	....	stunt performer
Lauro Chartrand	....	stunts
Dean Choe	....	stunts
Jim Dunn	....	stunt coordinator
Jim Dunn	....	stunts
Marny Eng	....	stunt double: Alyssa Milano
Marny Eng	....	stunt double: Reese Witherspoon
Delaina-Lu Gamblin	....	stunt double
Dave Hospes	....	stunts
Ernie Jackson	....	stunts
David Jacox	....	stunts
Michael Langlois	....	stunts
Rob Wilton	....	stunt double
Rob Wilton	....	stunt driver
Damon Winters	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Stephen Arnott	....	grip
Cory Budney	....	camera trainee
Bradley S. Creasser	....	first assistant camera
David Crone	....	Steadicam operator
David Crone	....	camera operator
James 'Spud' Danicic	....	second assistant camera
Herb DeWaal	....	lead man set up
Don Gillie	....	generator operator
Colin Gray	....	rigging gaffer
Holly Gregory	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Derek Grieves	....	dolly grip (as Derek Grieve)
James Head	....	director of photography: second unit
Tim Hogan	....	key grip
Stephen Jackson	....	gaffer
Robin Jobin	....	rigging grip
Burton 'Joe' Kuchera	....	best boy
Joseph Lederer	....	still photographer (as Joe Lederer)
Stephen Maier	....	loader
Stephen Maier	....	second assistant camera: second unit
Ross Newcomb	....	grip
George Ramage	....	best boy rigging
John Sanderson	....	video playback operator
A.J. Vesak	....	helicopter photographer
Johnny Walker	....	grip
Ken Woznow	....	second company grip

Casting Department
James Forsyth	....	extras casting
Fiona Jackson	....	casting: Canada
Julia Kim	....	casting assistant

Editorial Department
Gary Burritt	....	negative cutter
Devon Miller	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Tom Boyd	....	musician: oboe soloist
Danny Bramson	....	music supervisor
Julian Bratolyubov	....	music preparation
Sandy DeCrescent	....	orchestra manager (as Sandy De Crescent)
Michael Farrow	....	music scoring mixer
Ron Finn	....	assistant music editor (as Ronald J. Finn)
Laura Perlman	....	music editor
Lolita Ritmanis	....	orchestrator
James Thatcher	....	musician: french horn
Shirley Walker	....	conductor
Shirley Walker	....	orchestrator
Kristopher Carter	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Michael Burnette	....	transportation coordinator
Paul E. Stroh	....	transportation captain: Seattle

Other crew
John Alfred	....	first assistant accountant
Bob Bedard	....	sous chef
Susan J. Bonno-Buckner	....	first assistant accountant
Frank Buono	....	production assistant
Debbie Coe	....	animal trainer (as Debra J. Coe)
Louise DeCordoba	....	first assistant accountant
Tony Giglio	....	production assistant
Leesa Green	....	craft service
Jennifer Harland	....	background coordinator
Bev Henday	....	stand-in: Reese Witherspoon
Bonnie Judd	....	animal actors supplied by
David Richard Lewis	....	stand-in: William Petersen
D. Neil Mark	....	stand-in: Mark Wahlberg
Eva Morgan	....	assistant production coordinator
Don Orlando	....	production accountant
Moira Perlmutter	....	assistant production coordinator: re-shoot
Tina Reynolds	....	assistant: Mr. Foley
Morgan Rhodes	....	production assistant
Christine Wilson	....	script supervisor
Darryl S. Bird	....	locations production assistant (uncredited)
James Lumb	....	assistant: producers (uncredited)
Drew Taylor	....	set production assistant: Vancouver (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Imagine Entertainment
• Universal Pictures

Distributors

• Universal Pictures (1996) (USA) (theatrical)
• Fox Network (1999) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) (1997) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (1997) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (video)
• CIC Vídeo (199?) (Brazil) (VHS)
• CIC-Taft Home Video
• Cinéma International Corporation (CIC) (1998) (Sweden) (VHS)
• Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2001) (UK) (DVD)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (USA) (laserdisc)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (Argentina)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (Spain)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (France)
• Universal Home Entertainment (USA) (DVD)
• Universal Home Video (2002) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Universal Studios Home Video (2007) (Canada) (DVD)
• Universal Studios Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated R for strong graphic violence and terror, sexuality, language and drug use

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | DTS-Stereo

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #33894) | Netherlands:16 | Philippines:PG-13 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Mexico:B | Japan:PG-12 | Italy:VM14 | UK:18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Canada:18A | Chile:18 | France:-16 | Germany:18 (w) | Iceland:16 | Norway:15 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Mercer Island, Washington, USA

Company:

Imagine Entertainment

Trivia:

The rollercoaster featured in Fear is called "The Coaster". It is one of the biggest attractions at Playland, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When David and his friends are about to invade the Walker house and Laura is opening the door, we hear David say to his friend "Terry, go out there and keep a watch." But his mouth says something different.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Laura Walker:[calling upstairs to Nicole in the shower] Nicole, save some hot water for your father!

Movie Connections:

Featured in 2011 MTV Movie Awards (2011) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Comedown

Not just a simple case of harassment

**SPOILERS** Your usual psycho movie with a bit of a twist, like snapping one's neck, that has to do with this loved crazed teenager David McCall, Mark Wahlberg, who just can't let go of the object of his obsession pretty blond high school student Nicole Walker, Reese Witherspoon, whom he want's to be his "woman" even if it kills her!

Meeting David through a mutual friend Margo Masse, Alyssa Milano, Nicole is completely captivated by the handsome and muscular young man's shyness and sincerity towards her. As we, and Nicole, soon find out David has a past that he wants people, especially Nicoles parents, not to not know anything about.

Orphaned early in life David became an incorrigible youth that lead him from one broken home, in trying to get him adopted, to another. Now in his teens David has drifted into Seattle and started this gang of both drug dealing and drug partying thugs that Margo, Nicole' best friend, got involved with. David's true personality comes to the surface when he catches Nicole with her friend Gary, Todd Caldecott, outside of school kissing and almost beats the young man into a coma! Why this dangerous lunatic wasn't arrested and put away, with the criminal record he already had, shows how slow and ineffective the justice system really is.

Worming his way into both Nicole's heart and home David starts to get to work on both her parents Steve and Laura Walker, William Petersen & Amy Brenneman, with his charm and and boyish innocence. It's Nicole's dad Steve who at first sees what a lowlife and dangerous rat, in his little boy lost and without love routine, David is and this results in him being the major target, when he goes wacko, of David's mindless violence. When Nicole goes to pay David a surprise visit she sees just exactly what he's really all about. Peeking inside David's pad, a drug den, Nicoel's sees David and his gang partying and shooting up with her friend, who looks like she's totally wiped out, Margo as the star attraction!

It's when Steve after taking all the cr*p that David could dish out, on him and his family, goes to his gang's clubhouse drug den and sees among other outrages that he secretly, after having sex with her, stole his daughter's panties-to prove that he did it- that he finally loses his cool! Going berserk Steve wrecks the place together with all the drugs and drug paraphernalia thats there! It's after that when things, if they weren't already, really start to get out of hand in the movie. A mad as hell David, now seeking bloody revenge, and his gang get so carried away in their actions against the Walkers that they not only break into their well fortified home and but even go so far as to murder, if that's the word for it, the family pet and guard dog Kaiser by decapitating him!

The final few minutes in the movie-with his gang members by then either killed or put to flight- has the by now totally deranged David go after, after almost beating him to death, Steve as his "love" Nicoel stands helplessly by in not being able to do anything to save of father from getting is brains blown out! It's that fear on Nicoel's part that has her do what she should have done much earlier in the movie! Stick it to her deranged psycho lover and stick it where it hurts most!