A History of Violence
- Title: A History of Violence
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A History of Violence is only 96 minutes long and everything you need to know about the film can be found in that amount of time. It’s a streamlined and stripped down story that doesn’t waste a single frame or a single performance. And for its short running time it is amazingly effective, disturbing, distressing, and haunting.
Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife Edie (Mario Bello) own a diner in a sleepy little town of Millbrook, Indiana. They are raising a son (Ashton Holmes) who is tortured by bullies but has been taught to turn the other cheek, and a young daughter (Heidi Hayes). Their life seems idyllic until a pair of thugs attempt to rob the diner and kill the witnesses. Tom kills both men with brutal efficiency that is unusual in a diner owner of a sleepy town.
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