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Eye for an Eye (1996)

★ 6.3 · 463 ratings on TMDB

What do you do when justice fails?

Eye for an Eye poster★ 6.3

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.

DirectorJohn Schlesinger
CastAlexandra Kyle, Beverly D'Angelo, Charlayne Woodard, Ed Harris, Joe Mantegna, Keith David
GenresDrama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Eye for an Eye keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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