A History of Violence/ Canada/ 2005/ Dir: David Cronenberg/ 96 Min
*** A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE is screening as part of our DAVID CRONENBERG showcase and is included in the cost of a full showcase pass. More info below***
When a pair of petty criminals attempt to rob his small-town diner, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) quickly and easily dispatches both in shocking and apparently natural order. In the flush of news coverage of Tom's seemingly heroic actions, a threatening stranger named Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris) comes to town, casting suspicion on Tom to his tight-nit community and adoring family.
“In much the same manner that David Lynch deconstructed the myth of the squeaky-clean small Southern town in Blue Velvet, so too does David Cronenberg take a hatchet to the facade of bland Midwestern homeliness in A History of Violence. ” - Film Frenzy
David Cronenberg: A Requisite Cinema showcase
To celebrate the release of his latest masterwork THE SHROUDS, the Broadway Theatre has curated a selection of classics from the peerless catalog of the iconoclastic DAVID CRONENBERG. This twelve picture series will highlight the evolution of Cronenberg's unparalleled work as the cerebral and visceral collide, negotiate, and inevitably coalesce across decades of groundbreaking cinema.
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