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Primal Fear is a film based on a novel by William Diehl, starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton. It tells the story of a defense attorney who defends an altar boy accused of murdering a bishop, but uncovers a dark secret involving the victim and the prosecutor.
Primal Fear: Directed by Gregory Hoblit. With Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard. The murder of a high and mighty archbishop leads to the involvement of Martin Vail, Chicago's best attorney.
- (250K)
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Gregory Hoblit
- 1996-04-03
As the brutal murder of Chicago's beloved archbishop by the hand of the shy nineteen-year-old altar boy, Aaron Stampler, makes the headlines, the high-profile defence attorney, Martin Vail, takes the opportunity to be in the spotlight.
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of...
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- Gregory Hoblit
- R
- Richard Gere
Apr 5, 1996 · “Primal Fear,” based on a novel by William Diehl, stars Richard Gere as a flamboyant Chicago defense attorney who chases defendants instead of ambulances and volunteers his services when a teenager from Kentucky is charged with murdering an archbishop.
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
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Richard Gere stars as Martin Vail, a famed defense lawyer who volunteers his services to Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), a Kentucky teenager charged with the murder of a Chicago...
