Ep. 15 - Primal Fear — VH YES

Primal Fear is a well-acted, nuanced, mature legal thriller. Watch it in a cold room.

Vital stats:

Studio: Paramount

Opened: April 5, 1996

Opening weekend gross: $9,871,222

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Stars: Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Frances McDormand

Original theme music by Phil Dimotsis.

A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this legal thriller based on the novel by William Diehl. Richard Gere stars as Martin Vail, a famed defense lawyer who volunteers his services to Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), a Kentucky teenager charged with the murder of a Chicago archbishop.