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Vigilante (1982)

Vigilante poster
Directed by
William Lustig
Genre
action film, crime film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 113 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A father seeks revenge after a street gang attacks his family. He joins a group of working-class neighbors who have started fighting back against local criminals.

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What happens

Vigilante, later released on video as Street Gang, is a 1982 American vigilante film directed by William Lustig and starring Robert Forster and Fred Williamson. Lustig came upon the idea for the film through a news article about "a group of blue collar workers in southern New Jersey who had organized to fight crime in their neighborhood". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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