FILM · 1996
Eye for an Eye
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- #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.
- #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.
- #003
In the book, Karen's surname is Neuman rather than McCann.
- #004
It spawned a Hindi-language Bollywood remake, Dushman (1998), which was made and released about two years after the original film's release.
- #005
This was Alexandra Kyle's debut.
- #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.
- #007
This is the second film in which Sally Field plays a character grieving the loss of her daughter; the first was Steel Magnolias.
- #008
The film was made and released roughly three years after Erika Holzer's source novel of the same name.
- #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.
- #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.
- #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).
- #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).
- #013
Actor Joe Mantegna played a character named Detective Sergeant Joe Denillo, who shares his first name.
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