Fear

Plot synopsis:
Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) is a fairly innocent teenager but with a rebellious side, particularly directed at her father, Steven Walker (William Peterson). At a rave, Nicole meets David McCall (Mark Wahlberg), and is swept off her feet by his sweet, polite nature. Steve, seemingly overprotective, doesn't trust David from the moment he meets him. Steve also gets angry when Nicole violates her curfews to spend more time with David. The closer Nicole and David become, the more Steven objects. One day, David scares Nicole when he sees her hugging her friend, Gary. He physically assaults Gary and shoves Nicole to the ground when she tries to stop him, leaving her with a black eye. Nicole ends things with David, leaving him crushed. The next day, he talks to Nicole, apologizes, and things are smoothed over for the couple.Nicole clings to David and he uses that to his advantage since he knows from their conversations about the tension between her and her father. He is more than happy to comfort her in every way. Steven is still suspicious so he does some checking into David's background and finds out that David is not who he appears to be. Steven confronts David on a street corner and orders him to stop seeing Nicole. David is still polite and says he has no intentions of hurting Nicole. Then he taunts Steven about wanting to keep his daughter a little girl forever and that he was scared David will take her away from him. He also says that Steven's wife isn't satisfied sexually and implies that she has been coming on to David. Steven is only interested in protecting his family and drives off. David doesn't take orders very well. David beats himself in the chest repeatedly until he is bruised, and Nicole accuses Steven of assaulting David. She leaves in an angry rage with David, who was waiting in the car outside. Later, David drops Nicole off, asking if she'd rather come home with him. Nicole declines but then changes her mind and drives to his house where she discovers Margo giving David's friend a lap dance. David then interferes and grabs Margo from behind and takes her to his room, proceeding to rape her, but Nicole believes Margo goes willingly. Nicole is devastated and completely breaks it off with David, wanting nothing more to do with him. She also doesn't want anything more to do with Margo. Later that week, David follows Nicole into a ladies' room in the mall and molests her.In a final, desperate attempt to get evidence to use against David, Steven breaks into David's house and discovers a shrine to Nicole in his bedroom. In a rage, Steven vandalizes the house, especially David's room. David and his friends make their way into Steven's house in revenge using scare tactics to gain access. David ties up Steven and brings him up to Nicole's room to "say goodbye" to his daughter. While David tells Nicole, "It has to be this way," he asks her if she wants to go with him. She fakes affection for him and says "yes." Laura frees Steven and he and David fight violently. Steven then throws David out the second-story window to his death.

Tags: violence, neo noir, murder

Review:
The two young female leads, Reese Witherspoon and Alyssa Milano, did a good job playing the victims, and certainly add value to the film for their attractiveness alone.
Considering it starred singer Marky Mark , Reese Witherspoon and William Petersen who's a rival to Eric Roberts in the straight to video / cable TV movie stakes I didn't think this was going to be up to much While not being a classic thriller FEAR certainly did hold my attention , probably because much of the characterisation is credible .
Mark Wahlberg as David is very restrained for the most part which makes David and credible character and his on screen chemistry with Reese Witherspoon's Nicole is believable , you can believe these two characters are genuinely in love with one another something that is all too rare in this type of movie I should also point out that much of the movie revolves around the interaction of Petersen's Mr Walker who is concerned about his daughter's relationship with David .
It's refreshing to have a more thoughtful approach to this type of genre because if people start turning up dead after 15 minutes then things start to get silly , so the violence is kept to a minimum until almost at the end of the movie which does suffer something of a plot hole because no one seems to have a mobile telephone at readily hand and don't tell me professional people didn't have mobile phones in 1996 .
Nice, innocent teen Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) falls for handsome, muscular, soft spoken David (Mark Wahlberg) not knowing he's a psycho who wants her--forever.
And the cast here is well known it features some of the early work for most of them before they would go on to TV fame(Brenneman, Milano, and Petersen) and movie stardom(Wahlberg and Witherspoon).
Set in Seattle, Washington a teenage girl the innocent and pretty Nicole(in one of Reese's earliest roles)lives with her father Steve(William Petersen)and stepmother Laura(Amy Brenneman)and Nicole has a good loving family life yet her parents are to overprotective and she starts to give into the pressure of her peers especially from her best friend the free spirited and sleazy Margo(the hot Alyssa Milano).
It's upon their partying and club going that Nicole meets a young and innocent and nice talking young man named David(Mark Wahlberg).
The sixteen year-old teenager Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) has moved to the house by the lake of her father, the architect Steve Walker (William Petersen), to live with her stepmother Laura (Amy Brenneman) and her brother Toby (Christopher Gray).
"Fear" is a good movie, with great story and performances.
This is also a great opportunity to see Reese Witherspoon very young and cute, and Mark Wahlberg perfect performing a manipulative psychopath.
**SPOILERS** Your usual psycho movie with a bit of a twist, like snapping one's neck, that has to do with this loved crazed teenager David McCall, Mark Wahlberg, who just can't let go of the object of his obsession pretty blond high school student Nicole Walker, Reese Witherspoon, whom he want's to be his "woman" even if it kills her!Meeting David through a mutual friend Margo Masse, Alyssa Milano, Nicole is completely captivated by the handsome and muscular young man's shyness and sincerity towards her.
Why this dangerous lunatic wasn't arrested and put away, with the criminal record he already had, shows how slow and ineffective the justice system really is.Worming his way into both Nicole's heart and home David starts to get to work on both her parents Steve and Laura Walker, William Petersen & Amy Brenneman, with his charm and and boyish innocence.
A mad as hell David, now seeking bloody revenge, and his gang get so carried away in their actions against the Walkers that they not only break into their well fortified home and but even go so far as to murder, if that's the word for it, the family pet and guard dog Kaiser by decapitating him!The final few minutes in the movie-with his gang members by then either killed or put to flight- has the by now totally deranged David go after, after almost beating him to death, Steve as his "love" Nicoel stands helplessly by in not being able to do anything to save of father from getting is brains blown out!
Mark Wahlberg is great to look at (so is Reese Witherspoon for the guys) and the story - though done before - is very engaging and watchable.
This was the first movie I had ever watched with Mark Wahlberg in it and I fell in love!!
I absolutely love thrillers, dramas & movies with great acting plus young & hot actors in them!!
I managed to sit through all of it but for a fairly short film it dragged on and on for what seemed like an eternity and the only thing that I was really fearful of was that I might fall asleep with the TV on and waste money on my parents' electricity bill.With a thriller you are supposed to build up tension throughout the film and then release it all in a nail biting climax that leaves you gasping for breath and on the edge of your seat.
FEAR (1996) **Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Wahlberg, William L.
Petersen, Amy Brenneman, Alyssa Milano Director: James Foley   97 minutes   Rated R (for violence, sexuality, language and drug use)By Blake French:	"Fear" is a desperate, horror-free thriller.
Anyhow, young Nicole falls in love with seemingly sweet, nice, perfectly charming David McCall, played by Mark Wahlberg who somehow managed to salvage an acting career after appearing in this movie and thus was spared a lifetime of "Whatever happened to that Marky Mark guy" questions.
The movie is basically Romeo and Juliet for the MTV crowd, but by the end it becomes a slick '90s version of "Straw Dogs."  But the cast (including William Peterson, Amy Brenneman and, as one of the meanest characters in '90s film, Mark Wahlberg) does not act like this stuff is beneath them.
That's a shame since this could have been a really good little film.The story centers around a 16 yr old girl named Nicole (Witherspoon), who seems to have a lot going for her.
Witherspoon and Alyssa Milano are gorgeous, and Mark Wahlberg shows some talent in his first major film role.
It's interesting to see Mark Wahlberg in an early role though, and Reese Witherspoon is a good actress, but no one has the talent to save this film.
It stars Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William Petesen, Alyssa Milano and Amy Brenneman.
All of the key scenes will be instantly familiar to genre film watchers, and unfortunately the plot twists and turns come as no surprise.However, in spite of the lack of originality in structure and narrative thrust, Fear is never dull, not even when Wahlberg is wistfully looking into Witherspoon's eyes like a love sick puppy.
Setting aside the fact that both were a little older than the characters they were playing, they were quite good in their roles as the young & naive Nicole and the charming psychopath David who sweeps her off her feet.
And I have to say that although the movie almost lost me with the silly scene where David tattoos "Nicole 4 Eva" on his own chest, and while most of the story really didn't make that much of a connection with me, the last 20 minutes or so turns out to be a pretty good ride.
This is about one girl played by Reese Witherspoon who likes an older guy played by Mark Wahlberg.
She parties with her best friend Margo Masse (Alyssa Milano) and falls for bad boy David McCall (Mark Wahlberg).This is an afterschool special with sexed up Reese and Alyssa to hook the public.
i have never seen mark wahlberg playing a villain before.boy , this actor is so talented.he deserved an Oscar for his performance in this movie for sure.what can i tell you is that this movie has : very good script,very good actors,very good soundtrack,costumes,montage=perfect movie.i didn't notice a flow in this movie ,everything goes perfectly.James Foley was perfectly chosen to direct this movie.i have all the songs that appears on the soundtrack that was never released unfortunately.give this movie a try and you'll not be disappointed.it's a cult classic and this because of the talented mark wahlberg.reese witherspoon and alyssa milano plays in this movie and plays very well..
(8/10)markReese Witherspoon: Nicole the sweet sixteen year old who falls for bad boy David, not noticing that he could have a darker side and wonders why he gets mad when she just stops seeing him, very naïve young girl.
(Try)Best Part: Wahlberg is frightening in the lead villain.Worst Part: Slow starting.Kill Of The Film: School friend.Scariest Scene: The dog scene.Believability: People can become that obsessed but I think this is a bit too far.
Five years earlier, now-famous Reese Witherspoon made her debut in a wonderful movie called "The Man in the Moon." In both that film and this one, she played a teenager troubled by her crush on a boy.
The story is simple - a wealthy middle class family consisting of star architect William "C.S.I." Petersen, his beautiful wife and car and house and two kids, one of them beautiful young Reese Witherstone, are threatened by a wicked high school dude, played by Mark Wahlberg.
The direction is thrilling and fast-pacing, Carter Burwell's soundtrack is a menacing, gloomy score in the wake of Bernhard Herrmann, and the actors are really good, especially Petersen, Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg who portraits a really disturbing character miles away from his former New Kids On The Block and Markie Mark pop star image.The songs featured in this film are also really great and a good selection of groovy mid-nineties dance and indie rock tunes.
Reese Witherspoon, Mark Whalberg, and Willaim Petersen are great in the film.
It's basically about a 16-year old girl named Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) who meets a very mysterious and sexy guy named David Mcall (Mark Wahlberg)The end up dating and she thinks he is everything and more until she finds out the dark side of him.
When Nicole ends up breaking up with David, he's obviously not happy about this and does everything to try and get her back, when that doesn't work, he and a bunch of his thug friends break into Nicoles home, which leaves to some nasty consequences.Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon and Alyssa Milano are just some of the lead cast in this great movie and they all give really good performances.Fear is a great thriller, which includes a great script and some great directing.
FearTeenage girls like to date bad boys because the nice guys aren't rich enough yet.Mind you, the young woman in this thriller is doing it to annoy her father.Sent to Seattle to live with father (William Petersen), his new wife (Amy Brenneman) and her son after being evicted by her mother, Nicole (Reese Witherspoon) meets the enigmatic David (Mark Wahlberg).Shortly after the two become an item, Nicole begins to miss her curfew – enraging her father who is already angry over David undermining his authority.By the time Nicole realizes David's true nature, he and his friends have surrounded her home and having begun terrorizing her family.The quintessential crazy ex-lover movie, Fear is not only loaded with outlandish behaviour on the part of the unstable party, but it also showcases Wahlberg's best performance to date.Incidentally, the only guy good enough for a man's daughter is a eunuch.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca.
The reasons for this are two-fold: the fact that the predominant point of view is as much that of terrorised teen Reese Witherspoon's concerned father (William Peterson) as it is of the girl itself, and the way the film concentrates as much on the interplay of the characters as it does on manufacturing suspense at the expense of credibility.
This great film form director James Foley stars Reese Witherspoon as Nicole, a 16 year old "good girl" who while partying with her friends she meets David( Mark Wahlberg), a charming young man who sweeps Nicole off her feet.
I think that mark wahlberg got into the role very well and you could believe him, and reese witherspoon took the role also as a very trusting of everyone and very "I want something to happen to me" and toward the end she became very scared and didn't really trust anyone that well she lost a friend and was being followed and wanted..
Fear was an excellent movie its about this girl who meets this guy at a club but she thinks he's nice and falls in love with him but soon finds out he's got a violent temper when he catches this one kid hugging her he goes nuts and flips out then she gets back together with him and her father has warned her and she has seen his temper but she still goes back to him.
I love The Sundays and frankly this was the only reason that I watched this movie.Also, this film is called 'Fear'.
This film is more important as it was the first lead role by Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon as well as a big role for Alyssa Milano.
this turned out to be a pretty good thriller.i say turned out because it starts off slow and takes awhile to build up some steam.but once it gains momentum it maintains it throughout.there isn't a lot of suspense here,but the movie makes up for it in thrills.there are some pulse pounding moments that had me on the edge of my seat.there are also some pretty graphic scenes,and some sudden,shocking moments,as well as a fair amount of coarse language.there are some good actors in this one,including William(TV's CSI)Petersen,Reese(the Legally Blond movies,Walk the Line)Witherspoon,Alyssa(the TV series Charmed)Milano,Amy(TV's Judging Amy)Brenneman and Mark(Shooter,The Departed)Wahlberg.there's also some good character development as well.all in all,like i said,a pretty good thriller.for me,Fear is a 7/10..
This film kept my interest and Reese Witherspoon,(Nicole Walker),"Just Like Heaven",'05, played the role of a typical young gal who gets soft soaped into making love for the first time and her girlfriend told her, "You will always Remember the First One".
So Nicole falls madly in love with Mark Wahlberg,(David McCall),"Four Brothers",'05 until her father, William L.
Reese Witherspoon plays a 16-year old girl who falls in love with a guy called David (Mark Wahlberg)..
I brought this up because although it seems obvious that Mark Wahlberg was the most interesting character, I am a man that finds Alyssa Milano and Reese Witherspoon hot as an erupting volcano.
Some scenes are played so naturally that you forget you're watching a "horror" film, and "Fear" becomes a compelling drama.Unfortunately, in the final 20 minutes or so, the filmmakers decide to abandon any pretense of realism, and to turn the movie into something resembling a "Night of the Living Dead" knockoff, with punks replacing zombies (others have mentioned "Straw Dogs" here, but I haven't seen that one.) It culminates in a silly fistfight (with an even sillier outcome), and a potentially good film becomes disappointing.
Next thing i liked was the father - daughter relationship cause it dealt with rather unpleasant matter - father realizing his little girl is not so little anymore and she's having sex (just ask any dad - it's a nightmare) cause that's something you don't expect to see in an american film, at least not done as good as in this movie (I heard somewhere that before his film career Foley was a psychiatrist so i'm not surprised with that) And of course, there's excellent soundtrack (Bush rocks!).
A defiant daddy's girl(Reese Witherspoon)falls for who she thinks is the ideal guy(Mark Wahlberg).
Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon are the main characters in this touching,thrilling and efficient thriller directed by James Foley.
In Fear a young girl, Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) falls in love with a High School graduate David McCall(Mark Wahlberg).
This movie shows that your parents are always right whether you like it or not.Here are my parental reviews for this movieLanguage: Some Language here and there a handful of "F" wordsAdult content:  Some talk about sexual situations and sexual intercourse some actions with clothes on done by David's friend to Nicole,her friend and her Nicole's motherSexual Situations: Nicole Walker(Reese Witherspoon) is fingered on a roller coaster Nicole Walker and David McCall (Mark Wahlberg) have sex in Nicole's bedroom while her parents are out of town.Nudity: No nudityViolence/gore: There is some violence such as gun shooting a beating and a headless dog the ending is also very violentDrug use: Just cigarettes and alcohol nothing Major.
I also thought that Mark Wahlberg was really good in this movie and that he looked REALLY hot!!!.
This movie brings a shade of Mark Wahlberg you really never see again it's intense it's every dad worst nightmare and a very young Reese Witherspoon is also very good in this movie.
A bad boy like that who's seen all kinds, just doesn't develop an obsession this intense with a random chick after one date.Despite the fact that the movie is far from realistic, it's still an entertaining watch and a solid stalker thriller..
Even though this film might be categorized as a guilty pleasure, it still contains excellent early performances by Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon and a maturing Alyssa Milano.
Reese Witherspoon plays Nicole Walker, an average 16-year old girl in high school with great friends and loving parents.
While attending a party with her best friend Margo (played by Alyssa Milano), she meets a handsome young named David McCall (played by Mark Wahlberg) who gives Nicole a ride home after the party.
Alyssa Milano did a very good job as well.The Bad: It seems Reese Witherspoon always had to try to be in the spotlight, thus her character, Nicole got to be annoying and after a while I was wishing she would just get killed off.