Eye For An Eye

Eye For An Eye (1995)

  • 8% of critics liked it
    (36 reviews)

  • 63% of users liked it
    (18,454 ratings)

An ordinary woman is driven to the point of violent revenge in this tense thriller. Karen McCann (Sally Field) is a suburban wife and working mother with two daughters. Karen's life is turned upside down when her 17-year-old daughter is raped and murdered, a crime she overhears on her cellular… More

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R, 1 hr. 51 min.
Directed By
John Schlesinger
Written By
Amanda Silver, Rick Jaffa
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Jan 12, 1996 Wide
On DVD
Apr 16, 2002
Paramount Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    [A] really awful, hysterical thriller.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    This blatant button-pusher plays upon our most primal emotions as well as the increasing disdain for the criminal justice system.

  • Joe Leydon, Variety

    A B movie that somehow won the lottery and got an A-movie cast and director.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    Never in his varied career has Mr. Schlesinger made a film as mean-spirited and empty as this.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    Dumb dips from oppressive to offensive in this Sally Field suspense drama, which actually comes out for vigilantism.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Arash X


    I expected more from the director of Midnight Cowboy, Makes a few fair points but overall disappointing

  • Dean M


    The film is slickly mad and suspenseful, but manipulative and unpleasant; under the lynch-mob surface there are hints of a more honest, thoughtful film about grief, loss, and anger.

  • Lady D


    Starting with a dramatic opening, this film is quite good on a few different levels. the revenge plot is the most clear, but it also deals with the loss and anger of loosing a loved one, technicalities and loopholes of the law and also the pure rage that can dirive your average… More

  • Candy R


    Excellent thriller. Great cast.

  • Jennifer X


    sally field's obsession with finding her daughter's killer is a kind of unsettling. and that denouement scared the crap out of me when i was younger.

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