A History of Violence: Original Score

A History of Violence

John Wagner, Vince Locke

It was just another quiet day at McKenna’s Diner—until a couple of wanted killers walked in looking for trouble. Instead, they got bullets, and Tom McKenna got to be an instant media celebrity. That got him a lot of attention from some people he thought he’d escaped long ago. The kind of people who never forget a face—even after twenty years… Now Tom must confront a group of cold-blooded mobsters intent on settling the score. As much as he tries to deny it, he’s a man with a history of violence—and with the lives of his family hanging in the balance, he’ll do anything to make sure his secret past stays buried…forever.

A History of Violence

David Cronenberg

• 2006 Edgar–Video nominee
• 2006 Golden Globe-Drama nominee
• 2006 Saturn-Action nominee
• Score: 18.56

On the surface, David Cronenberg may seem an unlikely candidate to direct A History of Violence, but dig deeper and you’ll see that he’s the right man for the job. As an intellectual seeker of meaning and an avowed believer in Darwinian survival of the fittest, Cronenberg knows that the story of mild-mannered small-town diner proprietor Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is in fact a multilayered examination of inbred human behavior, beginning when Tom’s skillful killing of two would-be robbers draws unwanted attention to his idyllic family life in rural Indiana.…