Raising Cain Plot Summary and Details

Plot

A complicated thriller, directed with great visual style by Brian De Palma, Raising Cain is the story of twin brothers, Carter and Josh (John Lithgow), one good and one evil, who will stop at nothing to find children to further their father's psychological experiments. John Lithgow is outstanding in the role of the brothers. Lolita Davidovich, is also good as his wife Jenny, who he may or may not have murdered. To even identify the other characters would give away too much of the complicated plot, which twists and turns, leaving the audience constantly guessing who is really who. The film is darkly comic and De Palma and his unusual plot devices play homage to Alfred Hitchcock, along with Orson Welles and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.

MPAA Rating:

R for sexuality, language and terror violence.

Genre(s):

Drama,Action,Horror,Foreign

Run Time:

95min.

Theatrical Release Date:

07/13/1992

DVD Release Date:

09/08/1998

Distributor(s):

Universal

Director(s):

Brian De Palma

Starring:

John Lithgow , Lolita Davidovich , Steven Bauer , Frances Sternhagen , Gregg Henry

Themes:

Haunted By the Past,Kidnapping,Split Personalities

Tone:

Creepy,Humorous,Menacing,Tense,Paranoid

Keywords:

abuse,alter-ego,brother,child,child-abuse,daughter,evil,experiment,extramarital-affair,family,kidnapping,killing,mad-scientist,mental-illness,murder,obsession,psychiatry,psychopath,schizophrenia,twins,wife

Country of Origin:

USA (08-07-1992)

Language:

English