In news coming out of Cannes, Don Johnson (Django Unchained) and Deborah Kara Unger (The Game) have signed on to star alongside Nicolas Cage in the upcoming thriller Vengeance: A Love Story. Also featuring in the cast are Anna Hutchison (The Cabin in the Woods) and Talitha Bateman (The 5th Wave).
Back in March, it was reported that Cage would be directing the adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel Rape: A Love Story following the departure of original helmer Harold Becker, before Johnny Martin (Case#13) stepped in to take the reins. Here’s the official synopsis…
On the Fourth of July, twelve-year-old Bethie Maguire (Talitha Bateman) flags down Niagara Falls Police Detective John Dromoor (Nicolas Cage). Bethie’s mother, Teena, (Anna Hutchison) has been brutally raped by four meth heads, was left for dead, and is being nursed back to health by her mother, Agnes (Deborah Kara Unger), a strong, fierce advocate for her daughter and granddaughter who has taken on the responsibility of caring for them at great risk, as the meth heads are let out of jail on bail. Bethie’s testimony, along with the evidence collected, should be enough to put the boys in jail for life. However, the parents of the rapists hire the nationally renowned criminal defense attorney, Jay Kirkpatrick (Don Johnson), who shifts the focus of evidence away from the defendants and puts the spotlight on Agnes’s daughter, the attractive plaintiff, Teena, challenging her credibility based on her sobriety, shoddy parenting, and sexual promiscuity. Moving at a relentless, compelling pace, “Vengeance: A Love Story” reveals how an act of unbelievable and raw brutality twists the lives of three generations of women, and sets Detective Dromoor on his own course of police vigilante justice.
Vengeance: A Love Story is currently shooting in Atlanta.
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Originally published May 14, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
