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Karen McCann's (Sally Field) world is torn apart while driving home one day when she receives a call on her cell phone from her daughter--who is being raped and murdered as she speaks. The murderer--smirking, animalistic Robert Doob (Kiefer Sutherland)--is arrested, but is then released on a technicality. Seeking an outlet for .. Read more

Starring	Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Beverly D'Angelo
Director	John Schlesinger
Genres	Drama

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- "...Fine direction, photography and plotting have rarely been combined so effectively in a serial-killer story....Kiefer Sutherland excels in his juicily repellant role..."
- 10596
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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- - 6
  - 0
  An OK thriller
  
  Started well but went downhill thereafter. Keifer Sutherland playing his usual slobby yob bully/serial killer. Talk about type-cast - 24 must have been a seemed... read more »
  
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  - Peterborough
  - 24 Apr 2005 at 09:26
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- - 0
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  Disappointing Film
  
  When I saw the trailer, I thought what a great film. But when i watched the film, I was bitterly disappointed. The storyline and the actors were great. The I ... read more »
  
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- - Sandi44
  - 93 reviews
  - london
  - 04 Dec 2010 at 11:26
- - 2
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  great movie
  
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  i thought this was a great movie for thriller buffs, sally field acted really well and it was well worth and i would recommend this to anyone
  
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  - st albans
  - 12 Jun 2010 at 17:17
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  eye for an eye
  
  Great film, Suspense all the way through. Would definately recommend this as its a strong and powerful film. A bit alarming in parts.
  
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  - manchester
  - 20 Mar 2010 at 17:38
- - 1
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  Eye for an Eye
  
  An excellent film have seen it before but worth seeing again. A film of revenge
  
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- - Ronskie
  - 12 reviews
  - Dereham
  - 12 Nov 2009 at 14:18
- - 0
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  Bring back Jack Bauer!
  
  This film disturbed me - the initial half an hour I found incredibly upsetting as the mother of a young teenage girl. After that it becomes a good thriller ... read more »
  
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- - SusieP
  - 118 reviews
  - Leeds
  - 27 Apr 2009 at 13:45
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  Good stuff...
  
  ... but I had a defective disk and am waiting to see the end.
  
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  - the Slough of despond
  - 18 Feb 2009 at 08:34
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  Loved it!
  
  I saw this film when it was first released in 1995 and thought it was a really good and powerful film. Years on i was talkin about it to a friend, telling her ... read more »
  
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  - South Shields
  - 26 Nov 2008 at 18:33
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  Emotionally charged
  
  Great stuff from both Sally Field and Kiefer Sutherland .
  
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- - Gerryatrick
  - 2 reviews
  - Cardiff
  - 31 Jul 2008 at 23:08
- - 0
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  More graphic than the book
  
  Having read the book a few years ago, I thought I'd give the adaptation a try.
  
  Very well done and some brilliant acting. Found it disturbing in ... read more »
  
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- - AllieinLancs
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  - Stalybridge
  - 12 Jul 2008 at 11:45
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  Gripping
  
  What a film, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Keifer Sutherland can play a mean sinister role can't he.
  
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  - 20 Jan 2008 at 00:00
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- - 6
  - 0
  An OK thriller
  
  Started well but went downhill thereafter. Keifer Sutherland playing his usual slobby yob bully/serial killer. Talk about type-cast - 24 must have been a seemed... read more »
  
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  - Peterborough
  - 24 Apr 2005 at 09:26
- - 3
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  It was a brillisnt ...
  
  It was a brillisnt film, really intresting with lots drama and action a moving story that everyone loved.
  
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  - KINGS LYNN
  - 17 Dec 2003 at 11:24
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  This is an outstanding...
  
  This is an outstanding film of its type. Sally Field got my sympathy as the distraught, bereft, mother. I was gripped from beginning to the very end of the ... read more »
  
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  - WESTERHAM
  - 09 May 2004 at 17:45
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  Excellent Movie
  
  This is a good movie and leaves you touched at the end. Good must always prevail over evil. Excellent acting by Keifer Suderland too! watch this one.
  
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  - Edmonton Green, London
  - 30 Jan 2005 at 10:05
- - 2
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  great movie
  
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  i thought this was a great movie for thriller buffs, sally field acted really well and it was well worth and i would recommend this to anyone
  
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  - st albans
  - 12 Jun 2010 at 17:17
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  nasty kiefer at his best
  
  really enjoyed this film a lot of tension and the cast were brill recommend ya rent this film just to c jack bauer being a nasty piece of work
  
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  - co down nireland
  - 03 May 2007 at 15:57
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  Eye for an Eye
  
  An excellent film have seen it before but worth seeing again. A film of revenge
  
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- - Ronskie
  - 12 reviews
  - Dereham
  - 12 Nov 2009 at 14:18
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  eye for an eye
  
  Great film, Suspense all the way through. Would definately recommend this as its a strong and powerful film. A bit alarming in parts.
  
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  - manchester
  - 20 Mar 2010 at 17:38
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  Schlesinger Schlips.
  
  Karen (Sally Field) is a busy housewife who is stuck in a traffic jam whilst returning home. She is on the phone to her daughter when she hears said daughter ... read more »
  
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- - William Johnson
  - leamington
  - 25 Sep 2004 at 08:08
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  it was alright!
  
  It was alright it could have been done better looked like a cheap budget Sally Feild was alright Keffier was amazing as usual...alright to watch if you have ... read more »
  
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  - berks
  - 23 May 2005 at 21:15

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Critics' reviews
- "...Fine direction, photography and plotting have rarely been combined so effectively in a serial-killer story....Kiefer Sutherland excels in his juicily repellant role..."
- 10596
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- Contrived and unpleasant little pro-vigilante movie that loads the scales of justice while providing Sally Field with an opportunity to display prolonged hysteria.
- 31839
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
- A virulent throwback to the vigilante movies of the '70s. Field is a respectable middle-class wife and mother who turns... read more on Time Out
- 45104
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15
- "A high concept plot, a hot-button social issue....Sally Field toplines to good effect....Woodard is a standout..."
- 10597
- - Variety
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59

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  Karen McCann's (Sally Field) world is torn apart while driving home one day when she receives a call on her cell phone from her daughter--who is being raped and murdered as she speaks. The murderer--smirking, animalistic Robert Doob (Kiefer Sutherland)--is arrested, but is then released on a ...