“Cape Fear” quotes
(1991)
Martin Scorsese
directed this movie
in 1991
Title Cape Fear
Year 1991
Director Martin Scorsese
Genre Thriller
Year 1991
Director Martin Scorsese
Genre Thriller
Plot – Max Cady is serving a fourteen years sentence for rape. Max is guilty, but his lawyer Sam Bowden has failed to submit an important document which could have lightened his sentence. Bowden now lives in North Carolina with his wife Leigh and his teenager daughter Danielle. Max knows everything about him because he wants to make him pay.
All actors – Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Joe Don Baker, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, Illeana Douglas, Fred Dalton Thompson, Zully Montero, Craig Henne, Forest Burton, Edgar Allan Poe IV, Rod Ball, W. Paul Bodie, Joel Kolker, Antoni Corone, Tamara Jones, Roger Pretto, Parris Buckner, Margot Moreland, Will Knickerbocker, Robert L. Gerlach, Bruce E. Holdstein, Richard Wasserman, Paul Nagle Jr., Paul Froehler, Mary Ellen O'Brien, Jody Wilson, C.C. Costigan, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Gar Stephen, Billy D. Lucas, Ken Collins, Linda Perri, Elizabeth Moyer, Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Jackie Davis, John Ritter, Esther Rolle
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“- Danielle Bowden: Well, um, why do you hate my father?
- Max Cady: I don't hate him at all. Oh no, I pray for him. I'm here to help him. I mean, we all make mistakes, Danielle. You and I have. At least we try to admit it. Don't we?... But your daddy, he doesn't. Every man carries a circle of hell around his head like a halo. Your daddy too....” (continue)(continue reading)“I know about loss, Max. I know about losing time, even losing years. And I know it doesn't compare to jail, but I can understand.”
“I'm bound for the promise land.”
“Every man... every man has to go through hell to reach paradise.”
“I understand, I'm not your type, too many tattoos. Thing is, there isn't much to do in prison except desecrate your flesh.”
“If you hold on to the past, you die a little each day.”
“It's not necessary to lay a foul tongue on me my friend. I could get upset. Things could get out of hand. Then in self defense, I could do something to you that you would not like, right here.”
“Let's get something straight: I spent fourteen years in an eight by nine foot cell surrounded by people who were less than human, my mission in that time was to become more than human.”
“- Max Cady: Are you my friend? Are you my friend?
- Claude Kersek: No I'm not your friend.
- Max Cady: Well, see, I like to plan my comings and goings with friends, so if you're planning my comings and goings I'd call that presumptuous, in fact I'd call it downright rude.”“I'd like to know just how strong we are. Or how weak. But I guess the only way we're gonna find that out is just by going through this.”
“You ready to be born again, Miss Bowden?”
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