A History of Violence R

Tom Stall had the perfect life … until he became a hero.
A History of Violence
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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 14, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: New Line Home Video

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Certified Fresh87%

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Total Count: 214

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 279,935
Rating: C+ -- Reveals its hand way too early, and then proceeds to deliver a second hour that left me cold. Full Review
Bowling Green Daily News
Nov 19, 2019
There's nothing more off-putting than being treated like a guinea pig. Full Review
Sydney Morning Herald
Mar 10, 2006
Rating: 4/4 -- A fully realized, wholly rendered, singular work of art. Full Review
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Jun 5, 2019
Cronenberg's masterful, intelligent and gripping meta-thriller leaves us pondering about our enduringly perverse desire for alternative realities, in which surrogate violent alter egos run righteously and preposterously amok.
Sight and Sound
Oct 1, 2005
A remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy.
New York Magazine/Vulture
May 12, 2006
The family tableau that ends the film is as chilling and redemptive as anything Cronenberg has ever crafted....You won't know what hit you.
Rolling Stone
Oct 6, 2005
This peculiarly predictable picture has been calculated, or miscalculated, to set up certain expectations, fulfill them, and then do the same thing again, thereby giving us a chance to see what's coming and, at least in theory, be shocked. Full Review
Wall Street Journal
Apr 15, 2013

Product Description:

Canadian director David Cronenberg, whose impressive oeuvre includes such disparate works as THE DEAD ZONE, THE FLY, DEAD RINGERS, M. BUTTERFLY, and SPIDER, has made what might be the best film of his career with A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Loosely based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, the movie stars Viggo Mortensen as Tom Stall, a quiet, easygoing family man who runs a diner in a small Indiana town. But when two dangerous criminals come into the restaurant prepared to wreak havoc, Stall turns hero and shoots them both. After Stall's story is blasted all over the media, Philly mobster Carl Fogaty (an excellent Ed Harris) shows up, claiming that Tom is actually former hit man Joey Cusack--and they've got some important business to finish. While Stall insists that Fogaty is mistaken, his family--his wife, Edie (Maria Bello); teenage son, Jack (Ashton Holmes); and young daughter, Sarah (Heidi Hayes)--gets dragged into the danger that constantly threatens to explode. Cronenberg, whose films often deal with the fantastical, the futuristic, and the supernatural, has done a masterly job creating a wholly believable modern world where evil lurks just around the corner. Howard Shore's tense, moody music complements the outstanding acting in a violent, powerful film that is not to be missed.

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History of Violence, A
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father (Viggo Mortensen) commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

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