ActionCrimeDrama

A History of Violence

2005
★ 7.4 / 10
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
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★★★★★
We are in a a small community driven town, restaurant owner Tom Stall becomes the hero of the town when he shoots and kills two murdering robbers at the restaurant. Not long after, facially scarred Carl Fogarty arrives in town proclaiming that Tom is actually...
★★★★★
This is, like all Cronenberg's work, a mythic movie. It occupies the world of "monsters" that Tom Stall's daughter dreams about at the start. It's as if we get to see the little girl's nightmare as the film unfolds. It's because of this poetic, super-real qual...
★★★★★
Cronenberg's adaptation of a Wagner and Locke graphic novel places a simple American family man, and his all-American family, into a new and disturbing context which has them questioning everything they think they know. Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) owns a littl...
★★★★★
FIRST.... Let us FOCUS on the Title´s content and context! There is a great deal in this film that is lurking just below the surface! A History of Violence is quite another kind of story altogether! A unique combination of action, drama, suspense, and crime c...
★★★★★
I expected bloody senselessness and instead saw a film laden with the deepest human emotions. It was real. From youthful loving to hard violence, from simple innocent joys to the full depth of adult violence and sex, and ultimate redemption, this film has it a...
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