Primal Fear

About Primal Fear

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago.

Gregory Hoblit's Primal Fear is a 1996 crime thriller film. Richard Gere takes the lead as Martin Vail, Laura Linney as Janet Venable, Edward Norton as Aaron, and John Mahoney as Shaughnessy.

It runs 130 minutes and was released in April 1996. Written by Ann Biderman and Steve Shagan. The story is adapted from a novel.

Members will find corruption, mental illness, child abuse, and whodunit in it. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, and Paramount Plus Essential. It scores 7.7 out of 10 from 4,199 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Sleepers, A Time to Kill, and To Kill a Mockingbird make useful companions to Primal Fear, all filed under court and court case.