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Eye for an Eye
1996
· Movie
· 101 min
F
MEANRANK
48/100
Every rating
7–62
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 7, highest is Kinopoisk on 62. Critics average 16, everyone else 60.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Details
- Director
- John Schlesinger
- Writers
- Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 12 January 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $26.9M
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