Eye For an Eye

– It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.20 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 41 Minutes
Release Year:
1996
Eye for an Eye (1996)

It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.

Producing Country:
USA
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Eye for an Eye (1996) - Trailer

Release Date:

12 Jan 1996

Language:

English, French, Spanish, Korean

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

John Schlesinger

Writer:

Erika Holzer (novel), Amanda Silver (screenplay), Rick Jaffa (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Sally Field, Ed Harris, Olivia Burnette, Alexandra Kyle

Plot:

Karen McCann's eldest daughter is raped and murdered whilst on the phone with her. When the case against Robert Doob, the perpetrator, is dismissed because of a technicality, she starts following him and sees how he checks out his next victim, a woman he delivers groceries to. She tells the police, but is only warned she must stop following Doob. When she tries to warn the woman, she is shooed out of the house. Doob, having found out that Karen is following him, threatens to do something to her youngest daughter. She then seeks help from a group of vigilantes connected to a support group, in order to shoot Doob. However, a friend from the support group turns out to be an FBI agent investigating the very vigilante activity Karen is involved in and warns her that she will go to jail for the rest of her life unless it is self-defense. In the meantime, tension grows between Karen and her husband Mack, because he finds out she has secretly been taking self-defense classes and has been learning how to use a gun. When Doob makes another victim and is again released for lack of evidence, she finds a way to lure him into her house and kill him in self-defense.

Production:

Leo Films

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.2/10