Sooner or later a man who wears two faces forgets which one is real.
Primal Fear (1996)
Crime
| Drama
| Mystery
DVD, 129 minutes
Country:
USA
Director:
Gregory Hoblit
Writer:
William Diehl
| Steve Shagan
| Ann Biderman
Producer:
Patricia Graf
| Hawk Koch
| Gary Lucchesi
| Robert McMinn
| Arnold Rudnick
Music:
James Newton Howard
Plot outline
An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.
Cast
- Richard Gere
- Laura Linney
- John Mahoney
- Alfre Woodard
- Frances McDormand
- Edward Norton
- Terry O'Quinn
- Andre Braugher
- Steven Bauer
- Joe Spano
- Tony Plana
- Stanley Anderson
- Maura Tierney
- Jon Seda
- Reg Rogers
- Kenneth Tigar
- Brian Reddy
- Christopher Carroll
- Wendy Cutler
- Ron O.J. Parson
- Sigrid K. Zahner
- Diann Burns
- Linda Yu
- Andy Shaw
- Mary Ann Childers
- Lester Holt
- Sylvia Gomez
- Jon Duncanson
- David Eckert
- Robert Jordan
- Joanie Lum
- Randy Salerno
- Kyle Colerider-Krugh
- Joseph Luis Caballero
- Randall Slavin
- Mike Bacarella
- Turk Muller
- Joseph F. Kosala
- Lenny Wilson
- Peter Schreiner
- Joseph R. Ryan
- Azalea Davila
- Wayne Wright
- Tony Fitzpatrick
- Clarence Williams Jr.
- Rosalie V. Lewis
- Dwight Brad Dyer
- Larry Cook
- Bob Kenney
- Mike Boss
Plots
- Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest. Written by Jonathan Broxton
- An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a "third person" in the room during the murder. The intensity builds when a surprise twist alters everyone's perception of the crime and what really happened... Written by Kerm