Synopsis
Tom Stall had the perfect life...until he became a hero.
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
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A History of Violence
Cast
Viggo Mortensen Maria Bello Ed Harris William Hurt Ashton Holmes Peter MacNeill Stephen McHattie Greg Bryk Kyle Schmid Sumela Kay Gerry Quigley Deborah Drakeford Heidi Hayes Aidan Devine Bill MacDonald Michelle McCree Ian Matthews R.D. Reid Morgan Kelly Martha Reilly Jason Barbeck Bruce Beaton Neven Pajkic Brendan Connor Nick Antonacci John Watson Don Allison Brittany Payer Mitch Boughs Show All…
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Sound
Michael O'Farrell Christian T. Cooke Orest Sushko Wayne Griffin Mark Zsifkovits Clive Turner Don White Andy Malcolm Goro Koyama Glen Gauthier
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Alternative Titles
暴力效應, 폭력의 역사, Una Historia Violenta, Una Historia de Violencia, Şiddətin Tarixi, Оправданная жестокость, Şiddetin Tarihçesi, Una historia de violencia, Uma História de Violência, Erőszakos múlt, 暴力史, Historia Przemocy, Dějiny násilí, Το Τέλος της Βίας, O istorie a violenței, היסטוריה של אלימות, Marcas da Violência, Une histoire de violence, Виправдана жорстокість, Una història de violència, Тъмно минало, ヒストリー・オブ・バイオレンス, História násilia, Una historia violenta, Povijest nasilja, Quá Khứ Tội Ác, Smurto istorija, คนประวัติเดือด
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Releases by Date
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France
Cannes Film Festival
10 Sep 2005
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Canada
Toronto International Film Festival
29 Sep 2005
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Greece
Panorama of European Cinema
25 Oct 2005
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Netherlands
Film by the Sea Film Festival
01 Nov 2005
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Sweden15
Stockholm International Film Festival
05 Nov 2005
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Bulgaria
Cinemania Film Festival
15 Nov 2005
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Argentina+16
Buenos Aires
17 Nov 2005
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MexicoC
Mexico City
Theatrical limited
23 Sep 2005
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USAR
Theatrical
30 Sep 2005
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Ireland18
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UK18
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USAR
05 Oct 2005
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PhilippinesR-13
07 Oct 2005
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Canada18A
13 Oct 2005
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Germany18
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Israel16
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Switzerland16
14 Oct 2005
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Austria16
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Iceland
21 Oct 2005
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Norway18
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Spain18
27 Oct 2005
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Greece
28 Oct 2005
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FinlandK-16
02 Nov 2005
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Belgium
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France12
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Switzerland16
10 Nov 2005
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Czechia15+
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Netherlands16
11 Nov 2005
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Bulgaria
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Denmark15
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Estonia
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Latvia
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South Africa
15 Nov 2005
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Brazil18
17 Nov 2005
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Argentina+16
18 Nov 2005
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Poland18
24 Nov 2005
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Hungary18
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Ukraine
25 Nov 2005
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Kazakhstan
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MexicoC
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Romania
01 Dec 2005
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SingaporeR21
02 Dec 2005
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Sweden15
08 Dec 2005
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Panama
09 Dec 2005
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Turkey18+
16 Dec 2005
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ItalyT
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Switzerland16
05 Jan 2006
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Peru
13 Jan 2006
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Uruguay
23 Feb 2006
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AustraliaMA 15+
02 Mar 2006
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New ZealandR18
03 Mar 2006
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Taiwan
09 Mar 2006
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IndiaA
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Thailand
11 Mar 2006
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JapanR15+
16 Mar 2006
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PortugalM/16
07 Apr 2006
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Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
27 Sep 2006
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Kuwait
04 Apr 2007
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Egypt
26 Jul 2007
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South Korea18
Digital
07 Aug 2024
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UK18
Physical
14 Mar 2006
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USAR
20 Mar 2006
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Hong KongIII
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UK18
24 Mar 2006
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Germany18
10 Jan 2009
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United Arab Emirates
10 Feb 2009
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USAR
02 Mar 2009
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UK18
24 May 2013
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Germany18
01 Dec 2022
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Indonesia
TV
24 May 2008
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Netherlands16
Releases by Country
Argentina
15 Nov 2005
- Premiere+16 Buenos Aires
17 Nov 2005
- Theatrical+16
Australia
23 Feb 2006
- TheatricalMA 15+ Originally rated R18+
Austria
14 Oct 2005
- Theatrical16
Belgium
02 Nov 2005
- Theatrical
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
07 Apr 2006
- Theatrical
Brazil
15 Nov 2005
- Theatrical18
Bulgaria
05 Nov 2005
- Premiere Cinemania Film Festival
11 Nov 2005
- Theatrical
Canada
10 Sep 2005
- Premiere Toronto International Film Festival
07 Oct 2005
- Theatrical18A
Czechia
10 Nov 2005
- Theatrical15+
Denmark
11 Nov 2005
- Theatrical15
Egypt
04 Apr 2007
- Theatrical
Estonia
11 Nov 2005
- Theatrical
Finland
28 Oct 2005
- TheatricalK-16
France
16 May 2005
- Premiere Cannes Film Festival
02 Nov 2005
- Theatrical12
Germany
13 Oct 2005
- Theatrical18
24 Mar 2006
- Physical18 Warner DVD
24 May 2013
- Physical18 Warner Blu-Ray
Greece
29 Sep 2005
- Premiere Panorama of European Cinema
27 Oct 2005
- Theatrical
Hong Kong
20 Mar 2006
- PhysicalIII DVD
Hungary
24 Nov 2005
- Theatrical18
Iceland
14 Oct 2005
- Theatrical
India
09 Mar 2006
- TheatricalA (cut)
Indonesia
01 Dec 2022
- Physical DVD
Ireland
30 Sep 2005
- Theatrical18
Israel
13 Oct 2005
- Theatrical16
Italy
16 Dec 2005
- TheatricalT
Japan
11 Mar 2006
- TheatricalR15+
Kazakhstan
25 Nov 2005
- Theatrical
Kuwait
27 Sep 2006
- Theatrical
Latvia
11 Nov 2005
- Theatrical
Mexico
17 Nov 2005
- PremiereC Mexico City
25 Nov 2005
- TheatricalC
Netherlands
25 Oct 2005
- Premiere Film by the Sea Film Festival
10 Nov 2005
- Theatrical16
24 May 2008
- TV16 RTL 5
New Zealand
02 Mar 2006
- TheatricalR18
Norway
21 Oct 2005
- Theatrical18
Panama
08 Dec 2005
- Theatrical
Peru
05 Jan 2006
- Theatrical
Philippines
05 Oct 2005
- TheatricalR-13 (cut)
Poland
18 Nov 2005
- Theatrical18
Portugal
16 Mar 2006
- TheatricalM/16
Romania
25 Nov 2005
- Theatrical
Singapore
01 Dec 2005
- TheatricalR21
South Africa
11 Nov 2005
- Theatrical
South Korea
26 Jul 2007
- Theatrical18
Spain
21 Oct 2005
- Theatrical18
Sweden
01 Nov 2005
- Premiere15 Stockholm International Film Festival
02 Dec 2005
- Theatrical15
Switzerland
13 Oct 2005
- Theatrical16
02 Nov 2005
- Theatrical16
16 Dec 2005
- Theatrical16
Taiwan
03 Mar 2006
- Theatrical
Thailand
09 Mar 2006
- Theatrical
Turkey
09 Dec 2005
- Theatrical18+
UK
30 Sep 2005
- Theatrical18
20 Mar 2006
- Physical18 DVD
02 Mar 2009
- Physical18 Blu-ray
07 Aug 2024
- Digital18 Netflix
USA
23 Sep 2005
- Theatrical limitedR
30 Sep 2005
- TheatricalR
14 Mar 2006
- PhysicalR DVD & VHS
10 Feb 2009
- PhysicalR Blu-ray
Ukraine
24 Nov 2005
- Theatrical
United Arab Emirates
10 Jan 2009
- Physical Blu-ray
Uruguay
13 Jan 2006
- Theatrical
Popular reviews
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I think if Viggo Mortensen was in every movie ever made, the world would be a better place.
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David Cronenberg has frequently questioned the barriers of our physicality when confronted with the limitless potential of technology. How our bodies react when the unnatural is able to satisfy a certain itch beyond our current evolution. He's always been on a precipice of transformation, confronted with the ghosts in the machine, broken ceilings of self and sexuality and humanism. Understanding that a new world is just around the corner, and you're turned on by it but terrified at where the path might lead. So it's fitting that A History of Violence is akin to a primordial soup - the genesis of tendencies and outbursts that define our past and future. The beginning of the End. Cronenberg doesn't literally go…
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Unforgiven for plaid shirt and jeans Southwestern Ontario farm dads. Pretty broad material with regard to identity and violence but it has a solid freshly bruised, existential feeling to it. An open-wound stickiness and brutality and sexuality that only Cronenberg could pack it with and the cast is aces. I think about this line-reading by William Hurt like once a month at least. Great final shot.
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So many angles of attack in this one: it’s simple; it’s sophisticated; it’s Spartan; it’s double-edged; it’s familiar; it’s startling; it’s goofy; it’s nightmarish. And it’s all held together by probably the richest pair of lead performances in any Cronenberg movie since THE FLY, a husband and wife with different yet finally convergent fetishes for role playing, Viggo hilarious as a man carefully measuring his every move until the jig is up and Maria Bello wringing consistently interesting variations on the idea of commitment. Great fun, including some slapstick gunplay that signals our hero’s awareness of the kind of movie his financiers wanted him to make, and which he has, but only in a fashion, and, as ever, on his own terms
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Ford updated to the 21st century. History as a series of self-deceptions as myth gets subdued into role playing. Cronenberg clear direction blows everything wide open. As the title, perhaps the most wry joke in a pretty funny movie, promises, it is very surgical handled. It is a neowestern that, like most post bicentennial westerns, barely bothers to disguise that it is a mainstream art movie, but there's hardly a ponderous note and while Cronenberg finds an impressive double balance between delivering the goods (meaning blowing heads up) and implicating the audience (meaning keeping critics happy), it has an impressive propulsive quality. A self-annihilating journey that follows as impeccable as it is inevitable towards a release. The blocking is so…
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Rotten Tomatoes: 87%
Metacritic Metascore: 81
IMDB: 7.489/100
Release Date: 30 September 2005
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Budget: $32M
Worldwide Gross: $61.3M
Total Film Awards: 37
OSCAR Nominations: 2Richie Cusack: "Does it work for you? I can't see it working for me. I never got the urge, you know? A lot of great-looking women in the world. I never met one made me wanna give up all the others."
SYNOPSIS: A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core in this action thriller.
Cronenberg's adaptation of a Wagner and Locke graphic novel places a simple American family man, and his all-American family,…
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