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FILM · 1996

Eye for an Eye

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  1. #001

    Jamie Lee Curtis was originally cast as Karen McCann but had to leave the production due to a scheduling conflict with House Arrest (1996). The lead female role went to Sally Field in the final cast.

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  2. #002

    Alexandra Kyle, who plays Sally Field's young daughter, also appeared in A Time to Kill (1996). Both films were released the same year and both featured Kiefer Sutherland as the villain.

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  3. #003

    In the book, Karen's surname is Neuman rather than McCann.

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  4. #004

    It spawned a Hindi-language Bollywood remake, Dushman (1998), which was made and released about two years after the original film's release.

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  5. #005

    This was Alexandra Kyle's debut.

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  6. #006

    In the same year Eye for an Eye was released, Philip Baker Hall also played a character named Sidney in Hard Eight (1996), though the name is spelled with a Y in that film.

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  7. #007

    This is the second film in which Sally Field plays a character grieving the loss of her daughter; the first was Steel Magnolias.

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  8. #008

    The film was made and released roughly three years after Erika Holzer's source novel of the same name.

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  9. #009

    The film contains several Star Trek connections: Armin Shimmerman played Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Natalija Nogulich played Admiral Alynna Nechayev on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Arena" is briefly shown on a museum monitor early in the film.

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  10. #010

    Charlayne Woodard, who plays the undercover agent Angel Kosinsky, and Ross Bagley, who plays her son, both appeared on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990). Charlayne played Janice, one of Will Smith's aunts, and Ross played Nicky Banks, the newest member of the Banks family.

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  11. #011

    While Karen McCann (Sally Field) follows Robert Doob (Kiefer Sutherland) on his shopping delivery, a man who does not speak English is seen in a phone booth; the man is playfully cursing in Korean on the phone. Kiefer Sutherland would later star in the film Phone Booth (2002).

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  12. #012

    In this film, Sally Field plays Karen McCann, a character whose daughter is raped and killed. About five years earlier, Field had appeared in the film Not Without My Daughter (1991).

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  13. #013

    Actor Joe Mantegna played a character named Detective Sergeant Joe Denillo, who shares his first name.

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