Primal fear

Resource Information

The work Primal fear represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Primal fear

Statement of responsibility

Paramount Pictures presents ; in association with Rysher Entertainment ; a Gary Lucchesi production ; a Gregory Hoblit film ; screenplay by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman ; produced by Gary Lucchesi ; directed by Gregory Hoblit

Title variation

Terreur extrême

Contributor

• Linney, Laura
• Howard, James Newton
• Hoblit, Gregory
• Lucchesi, Gary
• Gere, Richard, 1949-
• Mahoney, John, 1940-2018
• McDormand, Frances
• Diehl, William
• Norton, Edward
• Biderman, Ann
• O'Quinn, Terry, 1952-
• Rysher Entertainment
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Shagan, Steve
• Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Woodard, Alfre, 1953-

Actor

• Norton, Edward
• McDormand, Frances
• Gere, Richard, 1949-
• Mahoney, John, 1940-2018
• Linney, Laura
• Woodard, Alfre, 1953-
• O'Quinn, Terry, 1952-

Film director

• Hoblit, Gregory

Film distributor

• Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Film producer

• Lucchesi, Gary

Production company

• Rysher Entertainment
• Paramount Pictures Corporation

Screenwriter

• Shagan, Steve
• Biderman, Ann

Subject

• Legal films
• Mentally ill offenders -- United States -- Drama
• Multiple personality -- United States -- Drama
• Procesos por asesinato -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro
• Trials (Murder) -- Illinois | Chicago -- Drama
• Trials (Murder) -- United States -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Acolytes -- United States -- Drama
• Betrayal -- United States -- Drama
• Crime films
• Abogados -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro
• Defense (Criminal procedure) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- Drama
• Diehl, William -- Film adaptations
• Feature films
• Feature films -- United States
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Lawyers -- United States -- Drama

Genre

• Fiction films
• Crime films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Legal films
• Teatro
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Criminal defense attorney Martin Vail is brilliant and confident. He is accustomed to fabricating and selling the truth while seeking the glory in the media spotlight. When he learns of the gruesome murder of a local Catholic archbishop, he immediately decides to defend the accused penniless altar boy. But Vail soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, as he becomes tangled in a web of lies, corruption and betrayal

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Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Director of photography, Michael Chapman ; editor, David Rosenbloom ; music, James Newton Howard

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: R; for brief grisly violence, pervasive strong language and a sex scene
• CHV rating: 18A

Language note

English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.P75 2009

PerformerNote

Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton. Terry O'Quinn

Runtime

131

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action