Vengeance: A Love Story (2017)

A gulf war veteran seeks vengeance against those who assaulted a single mother.

Director:

Johnny Martin

Writers:

John Mankiewicz (screenplay by), Joyce Carol Oates (based upon the Novel " Rape: A Love Story" by)

Stars:

Nicolas Cage, Anna Hutchison, Talitha Eliana Bateman

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Nicolas Cage	...	John
Anna Hutchison	...	Teena
Talitha Eliana Bateman	...	Bethie (as Talitha Bateman)
Deborah Kara Unger	...	Agnes
Don Johnson	...	Jay Kirkpatrick
Joshua Mikel	...	Marvin
Rocco Nugent	...	Lloyd
Joe Ochterbeck	...	Jimmy
Carter Burch	...	Fritz
Charlene Tilton	...	Irma
Dikran Tulaine	...	Walt
Kara Flowers	...	Dixon
Jimmy Gonzales	...	Det. Zwaff
Cory Scott Allen	...	Ray
Mike Pniewski	...	Judge Schpiro

Storyline

Walking home with her 12-year-old daughter after midnight on the Fourth of July, Teena crosses paths with some local losers to be brutally gang raped with her daughter Bethie watching. Bethie is able to identify the rapists, but when the rapists hire a hot shot attorney who attacks Teena's character, Dromoor, a local police officer who was first on the scene when police were called, starts to take matters into his own hands.

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Plot Keywords:

vengeance | rape | vigilante | rogue cop | falls | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 September 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

Vengeance

Filming Locations:

American Falls, Niagara Falls, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Patriot Pictures,Hannibal Classics,Justice Everywhere Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

At one point in pre-production Nicolas Cage was attached to direct but due to scheduling conflicts he gave the director's chair to Johnny Martin.

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Goofs

The shots of the outside of the courthouse are from an Atlanta courthouse (approx. 1hr 13 min in), not a NY state courthouse where the trial would have been (the monument is easily identifiable as the one in DeKalb county).

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Connections

Referenced in Half in the Bag: Mandy and The Predator (2018)

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Soundtracks

Draw the Line
Written and Performed by Kelly Pardekooper
Courtesy of Black Toast Music

User Reviews

How editing ruined a movie

Cage is his usual self. Not as cringy as lately, actually tolerable. The movie could have been good, but it is not. I suspect some other reviewers to be in the movie industry...or they just haven't seen that many movies yet. I give it 4 stars because the young girl is really good and the beautiful mother could have been edited to be excellent....BUT, this movie is the prime example of how NOT to edit a movie. Some of the scenes are waaay to long and downright unnecessary. But some of the cuts are so long (the mother in the hospital scene with cage) that it makes the actors look like overacting imbeciles. In one scene the beautiful mother goes through 5-6 moods/expressions. From scarred, confused, elated, relieved to sad and tormented relieved again...in the same cut. And at the end, the dialogue follows the two actors by way to rapid cutting. I have never thought about editing before in my life...but this opened my eyes to the importance of that job. Got through about an hour, and just had to quit. I will think long and hard before I rent another Cage movie.