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Harried working mom Karen McCann (Sally Field) 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....
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Jan 12, 1996 · "Eye for an Eye" cynically blinkers us, excluding morality as much as it can, to service an exploitation plot. The movie stars Sally Field as Karen, a mother whose teenage daughter is raped and killed, in a particularly horrifying scene, early in the movie.
After the assault, rape and murder of her 17-year-old daughter at home, Karen becomes obsessed with putting the rapist behind bars. What Karen soon finds is that the criminal justice system is more interested in procedure than justice and soon frees the killer of her daughter on a vague technicality.
Eye for an Eye. A public relations executive joins a support group after her daughter is killed by a convicted rapist/murderer. When the man is released due to lack of evidence, she joins a vigilante organization intending to kill the man. 3,179 IMDb 6.2 1 h 41 min 1996. X-Ray R. Drama · Suspense · Dark · Eerie. Available to rent or buy. Rent.
eye for an eye, in law and custom, the principle of retaliation for injuries or damages. In ancient Babylonian, biblical, Roman, and Islāmic law, it was a principle operative in private and familial settlements, intended to limit retaliation, and often satisfied by a money payment or other equivalent. See also talion.
Jan 12, 1996 · Overview. It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter. John Schlesinger. Director. Erika Holzer. Novel. Amanda Silver. Writer. Rick Jaffa. Writer. Reviews.
Drama. Two-time Academy-Award winner Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland and Ed Harris star in this riveting thriller about the search for justice in an unjust world. Karen McCann's (Sally Field)...
