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A History of Violence
-(Tom Stahl) An ordinary man lives a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife and their two children in a small town in Millbrook, Indiana. One day his ideal life collapses when he tries to steal his restaurant, saves his friends and restaurant patrons and kills the intruders. His life changes completely; he is described as a hero and the media agencies and journalists come down to cover his story, making him uneasy about highlighting it for such a reason.
3 August 1984, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
3 February 1947, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
18 February 1963, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
25 July 1986, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20 March 1950, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
11 November 1994, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
20 October 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
17 February 1978, Albany, New York, USA
23 June 1976, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
November 07, 2012
With A History Of Violence, Cronenberg uses the pulp gangster genre - as opposed to, say, sci-fi horror -- to draw us into a dialogue on our relationship as voyeurs to violence, both real and cinematic.
June 23, 2010
A truly entertaining and engrossing study of violence, family, and our pasts eventually coming back to haunt us...
August 16, 2010
While it weakens in its final stretch...A History of Violence succeeds enormously thanks to the strength of its direction and performances.
December 10, 2015
Hopefully [it will] encourage a sobering sense of responsibility and a more truthful perspective on identities (individual and national).
April 20, 2011
Without conceding any of his iconoclastic vision, Cronenberg has turned a genre film with classic Western overtones into a gripping psychological drama that examines the duality of man and his infatuation with the art of violence.
May 12, 2006
A remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy.
October 04, 2013
A fascinating exercise in cinematic restraint resulting in a captivating, not to be missed film.
April 15, 2013
The less you know about this movie before seeing it -- and you really should see it -- the better.
October 07, 2005
The film, based on a graphic novel, has a crackling sense of visual tension.
October 02, 2005
A model of clean, lean storytelling.
April 15, 2013
This peculiarly predictable picture has been calculated, or miscalculated, to set up certain expectations, fulfill them, and then do the same thing again, thereby giving us a chance to see what's coming and, at least in theory, be shocked.
April 15, 2013
Cronenberg's direction, mirroring the split in Tom, is alternately measured and frighteningly explosive, and, as always, he gives the movie a nasty underlay of sexual perversity.
