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Eye for an Eye is a 1996 American psychological thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It stars Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Beverly D'Angelo, Joe Mantegna and Cynthia Rothrock. The story was adapted from Erika Holzer's novel of the same name. The film opened on January 12, 1996.
An eye for an eye" (Biblical Hebrew: עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן, ʿayīn taḥaṯ ʿayīn) is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure.
Jan 12, 1996 · Eye for an Eye: Directed by John Schlesinger. With Sally Field, Ed Harris, Olivia Burnette, Alexandra Kyle. When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.
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.
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...
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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. 3,196 IMDb 6.2 1 h 41 min 1996. X-Ray R.
