A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

Best Picture of the Year… You Won’t Know What Hit You

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt & Ed Harris

Director: David Cronenberg

Movie Synopsis:
This is the story of a mild-mannered man, named Tom Stall, who becomes a local hero through an act of violence; he lives a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana. But one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner.

Sensing danger, he takes action and saves his customers and friends in the self-defence killings of two-sought-after criminals. Heralded as a hero, Tom's life is changed overnight, attracting a national media circus, which forces him into the spotlight.

Uncomfortable with his newfound celebrity, Tom tries to return to the normalcy of his ordinary life only to be confronted by a mysterious and threatening man who arrives in town believing Tom is the man who wronged him in the past.

As Tom and his family fight back against this case of mistaken identity and struggle to cope with their changed reality, they are forced to confront their relationships and the divisive issues which surface as a result.

Cronenberg's adaptation of a Wagner and Locke graphic novel places a simple American family man, and his all-American family, into a new and disturbing context which has them questioning everything they think they know.

David Cronenberg has directed some of my favourite off-beat films - the masterpiece Naked Lunch, Scanners, Videodrome. Cronenberg enjoys creating disturbing situations and imagery, and wants to get under your skin and to stimulate your mind on as many levels as he can.

Viggo Mortensen, in his best mainstream role since Aragorn, and Maria Bello head an impressive cast in this adaptation of a Wagner and Locke graphic novel. Nobody in the cast slips up at all. The script is intense, realistic, and probably did nothing to make the performances easy.

Editing, directing and pure performance combine to make flawless performances for this cast. Backed up by veterans Ed Harris and William Hurt, and very strongly supported by the excellent Maria Bello, Mortensen is shockingly excellent in a difficult role.

Rearranged synopsis provided by the International Movie Data Base. For a full plot synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers) of this movie including list of cast, director, writers, awards, and photographs please go here: www.imdb.com

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