Revenge [1990]

Columbia TriStar (Feb 16, 1990)

USA | English | Color | 01:40

#1084

6.2

21,651

043396194397

| 1 disc

Region A

A retired US Navy pilot comes to Mexico, where he falls in love with the wife of a powerful businessman. The consequences will be cruel and unforeseen.

Michael "Jay" Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years. He's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip. Arriving at the Mendez mansion in Mexico, he is immediately surprised by the beauty and youth of Mendez' wife Miryea. Their attraction to each other is undeniable, but Cochran is aware that Mendez is a powerful, vindictive, and very possessive man who does not tolerate betrayal.
—Murray Chapman

SYNOPSIS

Cast View all

	Kevin Costner	Cochran
	Anthony Quinn	Tibey
	Madeleine Stowe	Miryea
	Tomas Milian	Cesar
	Joaquín Martínez	Mauro
	James Gammon	Texan
	Jesse Corti	Madero
	Sally Kirkland	Rock Star
	Luis de Icaza	Ramon
	Gerardo Zepeda	Elefante
	Miguel Ferrer	Amador
	John Leguizamo	Ignacio
	Joe Santos	Ibarra
	Christofer de Oni	Diaz
	Daniel Rojo	Vaquero
	Edna Bolkan	Roxanne
	Pia Karina	Rochelle
	Mónica Hernández	Neli
	Julián Pastor	Quinones
	Claudio Brook	Barone
	Trini Rodriquez	La Vieja
	Mauricio Rubi	Resabio
	Gilberto Compan	Roberto
	Karmin Murcelo	Madam
	Alfredo Cienfuegos	Antonio

Crew View all

Director	Tony Scott
Writer	Jim Harrison, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
Producer	Kevin Costner, Hunt Lowry, Stanley Rubin, Jim Wilson
Musician	Jack Nitzsche
Photography	Jeffrey L. Kimball

Personal

Owner	Kerry & Dawn
Location	Movies-05
Storage Device	TD 31
Purchased	May 12, 2020
Quantity	1
Seen	Jul 03, 2022
Added Date	Dec 02, 2019 08:53:15
Modified Date	Apr 17, 2024 00:49:10

Notes

Version	Run Time
Theatrical Edition	2:04
Unrated Director's Cut	1:40

The version included on the 2007 DVD and Blu-Ray releases is director Tony Scott's shorter cut, running 104 minutes.
The original 124-minute version is producer Ray Stark's cut.

Scott's Director's Cut is a real Director's Cut with a lot of differences and it's really worth being watched. Nevertheless it's not the version Scott was going to release 15 years ago. Instead it's new version according to his current ideas, similar to Helgeland's Payback. Possibly fans of the old version wouldn't like the new one because a lot of scenes from the Theatrical Version have been removed. He thought this footage wasn't necessary, so he cut out the details to come faster to the point. Due to the shortening and removal of many scenes, the Director's Cut is appox. 30 min shorter.

Due to the modification that were made, the love affair of Cochrane and Miryea seems different in the Director's Cut. One could get the impression that it's just a fling, not real love, as the characters become aware of later on. Furthermore the ambivalence of the story is less obvious in the Director's Cut. Because of the reduced time of the character Tibey with his wife, the distracted viewer could overlook that it was him who got betrayed. As a result of that he doesn't get the sympathy he gets in the Theatrical Version. This was a main issue between Stark and Scott. Moreover the new version needs to earn the name Unrated, so all removed sex scenes have been put in again, added by a couple of violent scenes.

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