Monday, October 3, 2005

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE






Thriller

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Viggo Mortensen: Tom Stall, owner of Stall’s Diner
Maria Bello: his wife Edie
Heidi Hayes: their daughter Sarah
Ashton Holmes: their teenage son Jack
William Hurt: Richie, an Irish mob boss
Ed Harris: Carl, his right hand man

REVIEW
The slow paced “nothing much going on” opening scenes pretty much sets the tone. Knowing it’s almost too good to be true creates a certain amount of tension. And well it should.

The acting is uniformly good and the story riveting. However this is not a movie for the squeamish as some scenes are pretty graphic.

CLASSIFICATION
for brutal violence, graphic sexuality, nudity (brief frontal shot), language and drug use (one joint shared between friends)

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