Apex Mountain
Robert De Niro as a box-office star (reconsidered); the 1991 Oscar-nominated face-biting role (joking); Fred Thompson’s film run; Cape Fear as a location
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- Scorsese and De Niro initially rejected; De Niro reconsidered specifically as box-office star. Raging Bull perhaps broader career peak, with Goodfellas and Godfather Part II discussed. — Bill Simmons
- Nolte’s seventies hype / early-eighties 48 hours preferred; Lange no; Lewis Natural Born Killers agreed. — Bill Simmons
- 1991 Oscar-nominated face-biting joking apex; Fred Thompson film run yes, explicitly separate from Senate career. — Bill Simmons
- Cape Fear location itself proposed as having its peak through this movie, despite odd vacation branding.