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Raising Cain

1992, Movie, R, 95 mins

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Director Brian De Palma's eagerly awaited return to the psycho thriller genre that helped make him famous perfectly underscores the difference between plot and story in a film. "Story" refers to the events that occur, or are merely referred to, in a movie; "plot" refers to how these events are arranged in the screenplay. De Palma also wrote RAISING CAIN, and its story, upon synopsizing, seems fairly straightforward. Carter Nix (John Lithgow) is a child psychologist who's be... read more leave a comment
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A psychotic psychiatrist is persuaded by his evil father to help him in a kidnapping plot.
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Brian de Palma directs this stylish thriller about a psychologist (John Lithgow) whose deranged multiple personalities emerge when he discovers his wife (Lolita Davidovich) is cheating.
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From master-of-terror Brian De Palma comes this stylish psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final frame. Carter Nix (John Lithgow) is a respected psychologist, loving husband and devoted father who decides to take a year off to help raise his daughter. Carter's wife Jenny (Lolita Davidovich) is pleased to have her attentive husband home - at first. When Carter shows obsessive behavior toward their daughter, Jenny becomes concerned, and to complicate matters, Jenny's old flame (Steven Bauer) re-enters her life. But nothing can prepare her for the emergence of Carter's multiple personalities, and a fiendish plot to recreate the infamous experiments of his deranged father. It all adds up to a roller coast ride of heart-pounding suspense and stunning visuals in a film the New York Times calls "a delirious thriller."
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Length: 01:33:00
Posted: 7/14/2009
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From master-of-terror Brian De Palma comes this stylish psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final frame. Carter Nix (John Lithgow) is a respected psychologist, loving husband and devoted father who decides to take a year off to help raise his daughter. Carter's wife Jenny (Lolita Davidovich) is pleased to have her attentive husband home - at first. When Carter shows obsessive behavior toward their daughter, Jenny becomes concerned, and to complicate matters, Jenny's old flame (Steven Bauer) re-enters her life. But nothing can prepare her for the emergence of Carter's multiple personalities, and a fiendish plot to recreate the infamous experiments of his deranged father. It all adds up to a roller coast ride of heart-pounding suspense and stunning visuals in a film the New York Times calls "a delirious thriller."
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Length: 01:33:00
Posted: 7/14/2009
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Year: 1992
Rated R

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Cast
John Lithgow: Dr. Carter Nix/Cain/Josh/Margo
Lolita Davidovich: Dr. Jenny O'Keefe Nix
Steven Bauer: Jack Dante
Frances Sternhagen: Dr. Waldheim
Gregg Henry: Lieutanent Terri
Tom Bower: Sergeant Cally

 

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