Vengeance: A Love Story

Vengeance: A Love Story is a 2017 American action thriller film directed by Johnny Martin, written by John Mankiewicz, and starring Nicolas Cage, Don Johnson, Anna Hutchison, Talitha Bateman and Deborah Kara Unger. It is based on the 2003 novel Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates. The film was released on September 15, 2017, by FilmRise.

Premise
A policeman investigating a single mother's rape soon takes matters into his own hands after the attackers are acquitted in court.

Cast

 * Nicolas Cage as John Dromoor
 * Anna Hutchison as Teena Maguire
 * Talitha Bateman as Bethie Maguire
 * Deborah Kara Unger as Agnes
 * Don Johnson as Jay Kirkpatrick
 * Joshua Mikel as Marvin Fick
 * Charlene Tilton as Mrs. Irma Fick
 * Dikran Tulaine as Mr. Walter Fick
 * Mike Pniewski as Judge Schpiro
 * Marc Coppola as Dr. Collins
 * Francois Xavier Declie as Father Muldoon
 * Michael Papajohn as JJ Breen
 * Jwaundace Candece as Night Nurse
 * Elizabeth Hunter as Annie
 * Dwayne Boyd as Det. Lyle
 * Emily Sandifer as Ursula
 * Rey Herrnandez as Trooper #1 (Craig)

Production
Originally, production with Samuel L. Jackson, Dianne Wiest and Abigail Breslin associated, was set to be filmed in Michigan in 2009, under its film incentive program. Scouts arrived in fall 2008 and production was halted. On February 7, 2016, Nicolas Cage joined the cast of the film. On March 8, it was announced that Cage would direct the film, though he later dropped out of directing. Principal photography began on April 21. The following day, Anna Hutchison joined the cast. On May 12, Don Johnson joined the cast.

Release
The film was released direct to video in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2017. In the United States, the film was released on September 15, 2017, by FilmRise. Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times was negative towards the film, criticizing the script as "melodramatic" and "ham-handed," the directing as "heavy-handed" and "cliché-ridden," and Cage's performance of John Dromoor as "detached."