Death Wish

Paul Kersey, New York Archtitect, is a bleeding-heart liberal whose world is suddenly torn apart by the murder of his wife and the rape of his daughter. After a vacation to Arizona, Kersey returns to New York with a vengeance against crime, and takes to vigilantism., When a vicious gang rape and murder his wife and leave his daughter catatonic, a previously liberal-minded man decides to take the law into his own hands, becoming a vigilante., This drama about a man who takes the law into his own hands was wildly controversial upon first release, sparking much debate about the perceived pro-vigilante stance of the story, and established Charles Bronson as a major box office draw in the United States. Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is a liberal architect living in New York City. One day, a group of drug-crazed thugs break into his apartment while he’s gone, killing his wife Joanna (Hope Lange) and brutally raping his married daughter, leaving her comatose. When the police are unable to find the culprits, Kersey arms himself and begins patrolling the streets, killing muggers and thieves as he encounters them. While his obsessive search for street justice sickens him at first, in time Kersey begins to enjoy it and becomes a hunted man himself, as Police Detective Frank Ochoa (Vincent Gardenia) tries to find the man who is doing the police’s job for them, and a bit too well. Jeff Goldblum made his screen debut as one of the lunatics who attacks Joanna., Brutal revenge thriller about a liberal New York architect who takes the law into his own hands after his family is attacked by muggers., A liberal Manhattan architect turns into a vigilante after his wife is killed and his daughter raped and the police are unable to apprehend the men responsible., Brutal revenge thriller about a liberal New York architect who takes the law into his own hands after his family is attacked by muggers. Action.