Harried working mom Karen McCann is stuck in traffic, talking on the phone to her teenage daughter at home, when she hears an intruder break into the house and murder her child. When the courts fail to keep behind bars the murder, Karen seeks her own form of justice.
27 February 1966, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1954, Helena, Montana, USA
15 November 1951, Columbus, Ohio, USA
5 June 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 March 1977, San Clemente, California, USA
28 June 1951, Brunswick, Georgia, USA
11 November 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
23 October 1930
20 April 1963, Queens, New York, USA
5 December 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
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11 January 1930, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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May 04, 2017
With a cynical eye for the bottom line.
March 26, 2009
A B movie that somehow won the lottery and got an A-movie cast and director.
January 26, 2006
The characterisation is so thin, and the plotting so crude, it's only the violence which sets this apart from the banalities of TV fare.
August 04, 2009
[A] really awful, hysterical thriller.
May 20, 2003
Never in his varied career has Mr. Schlesinger made a film as mean-spirited and empty as this.
August 04, 2009
Directed by John Schlesinger from a screenplay by the Posse Comitatus.
March 31, 2005
Falls as flat as a flapjack
August 04, 2009
Any pretence of thoughtful debate has long since been abandoned.
August 04, 2009
Although it poses the interesting moral dilemma behind taking the law into your own hands, Schlesinger's film borders on the distasteful in its portrayal of rape and murder.
December 05, 2004
Much too overwrought and ridiculous to be taken seriously.
August 04, 2009
This blatant button-pusher plays upon our most primal emotions as well as the increasing disdain for the criminal justice system.
May 12, 2001
Dumb dips from oppressive to offensive in this Sally Field suspense drama, which actually comes out for vigilantism.
