A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 37 wins & 84 nominations total
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- TriviaWilliam Hurt received an Oscar nomination for this film for Best Supporting Actor despite only being in one scene which lasted less than 10 minutes.
- Goofs(at around 1h 12 mins) Tom's truck is a GMC when he is working on getting it running. However, when driving to Philly, you can see Chevrolet is written on the steering wheel.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Richie Cusack: [Joey holds a gun to Richie's head] Jesus, Joey.
Tom Stall: [as Joey shoots Richie in the head, then stands over his dead body] Jesus, Richie.
- Alternate versionsThere are some minute differences between the US and the International version when it comes to some of the violent scenes:
- Fogarty's thug, who gets his nose smashed into his skull has more blood spurt out in the International version in the shot where he is dying on the ground.
- When Joey stomps on Richie's thug's throat, he spits blood (instead of it 'welling up') and the sound effect of the neck breaking is louder. Both shots last the same length of time and use the same take, the amount of blood was simply toned down digitally for the MPAA. Most video versions outside the U.S. use the 'international version' but the shots appear in the supplements on the U.S. DVD (In the featurette titled 'Violence's History', Cronenberg shows the U.S. and international cut scenes side by side and explains the reason why there wasn't a standard 'unrated' version in the U.S. was because the changes were so small).
- ConnectionsEdited into A History of Violence: Deleted Scene - Scene 44 (2006)
Featured review
I honestly don't understand why this movie has such a big score. I was hoping for intrigue. But this movie is so plain and basic. Even acting was poor.
- twixee-laimona
- May 12, 2020
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- Una historia violenta
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- Budget
- $32,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $31,504,633
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $364,000
- Sep 25, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $61,385,065
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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