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Cronenberg’s film is the story of Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), who, in a pulse-pounding action set-piece, violently defends his all-American diner and family from psychotic drifters. The wake of his actions—resulting in national publicity—dredges up some evil men from Tom’s past, among them the terrifying Carl (Ed Harris) and hypnotic Richie (William Hurt). They know Tom Stall as Joey Cusack, a murderer from Philadelphia who owes them big and mysteriously vanished prior to Stall’s arrival in small-town Americana...
According to Cronenberg, it is particularly tough to cast a group of actors that are meant to resemble a close-knit family: “When you think about it, for example, I cast Viggo, and now I become like a dating service or a marriage counselor: I have to find him a wife...
...melodrama written by Josh Olson (from a well-known graphic novel) and made by director David Cronenberg. The movie sees gunplay infecting a series of peaceful small-town settings: a quiet motel, a friendly diner, the home of the most honorable citizen in Millbrook, Ind. He is Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen), and he enjoys an idyllic life with his lovely, loving wife (Maria Bello) and their two kids. When Tom uses some surprisingly expert moves to defend his diner, he becomes a local hero. His sudden, splendid fame attracts the attention of some out-of-town gangsters...
...through their mail slot. Auteuil's lingering unease over a vindictive act he committed as a boy leads him to suspect his old victim had a hand in the current mischief, but the perpetrator is not directly revealed. In A History of Violence, a mild-mannered guy named Tom (Viggo Mortensen) is shocked to find himself accused of having been a big-city hit man 20 years earlier. The film snakes through all manner of twists until the last scene, when Tom returns home and ... now what...
...Best Actor? Too Many. In most of the competition films, the central figures of agony or ecstasy were men: Daniel Auteuil in Hidden,Viggo Mortensen in Violence, Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, Jeremie Renier in L'Enfant, Nazmi Kirik in Kilometre Zero, Michael Pitt in Last Days, Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking, Mickey Rourke or Bruce Willis in Sin City, Tony Leung Ka-fei or Simon Yam in Election... the list is distinguished, and nearly endless...