Vengeance: A Love Story

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Vengeance: A Love Story
Vengeance A Love Story poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohnny Martin
Screenplay by John Mankiewicz
Based onRape: A Love Story
by Joyce Carol Oates
Produced by Nicolas Cage
Michael Mendelsohn
StarringNicolas Cage
Don Johnson
Anna Hutchison
Talitha Bateman
Deborah Kara Unger
CinematographyDavid Stragmeister
Music by Frederik Wiedmann
Production
companies
Saturn Films
Patriot Pictures
Distributed by FilmRise
Release dates
  • March 27, 2017 (2017-03-27)(United Kingdom)
  • September 15, 2017 (2017-09-15)(United States)
Running time
99 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$73,270 [1]

Vengeance: A Love Story is a 2017 American action thriller film [1] [2] directed by Johnny Martin, written by John Mankiewicz, and starring Nicolas Cage, Don Johnson, Anna Hutchison, Talitha Bateman and Deborah Kara Unger. It is based on the 2003 novel Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates. The film was released on September 15, 2017, by FilmRise.

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Premise

A policeman investigating a single mother's rape soon takes matters into his own hands after the attackers are acquitted in court.

Cast

Production

Originally, production with Samuel L. Jackson, Dianne Wiest and Abigail Breslin associated, was set to be filmed in Michigan in 2009, under its film incentive program. Scouts arrived in fall 2008 and production was halted. [6] On February 7, 2016, Nicolas Cage joined the cast of the film. [3] On March 8, it was announced that Cage would direct the film, though he later dropped out of directing. [7] Principal photography began on April 21. [8] The following day, Anna Hutchison joined the cast. [4] On May 12, Don Johnson joined the cast. [5]

Release

The film was released direct to video in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2017. [9] In the United States, the film was released on September 15, 2017, by FilmRise. [1] Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times was negative towards the film, criticizing the script as "melodramatic" and "ham-handed," the directing as "heavy-handed" and "cliché-ridden," and Cage's performance of John Dromoor as "detached." [10]

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