Taglines: What do you do when justice fails?
Eye for an Eye movie storyline. 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.
Eye for an Eye is a 1996 American psychological thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. The film stars Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Beverly D’Angelo and Joe Mantegna. The story was adapted from Erika Holzer’s novel of the same name. The film opened on January 12, 1996.
Eye for an Eye (1996)
Directed by: John Schlesinger
Starring: Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Beverly D’Angelo, Joe Mantegna, Darrell Larson, Charlayne Woodard, Philip Baker Hall, Natalija Nogulich
Screenplay by: Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa
Production Design by: Stephen Hendrickson
Cinematography by: Amir Mokri
Film Editing by: Peter Honess
Costume Design by: Bobbie Read
Set Decoration by: Jan K. Bergstrom
Art Direction by: David J. Bomba
Music by: James Newton Howard
MPAA Rating: R for language and disturbing violence which includes rape.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: January 12, 1996
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