Richie is tortured and presumably killed before he named Joey as his accomplice. Rather than surrendering to the mobsters, Tom shoots the propane tank behind the mobsters, causing an explosion that stuns them.

Joey is forced to leave his grandmother and narrowly escaping from Torrino. Tom's wife Edie intervenes and orders the men to leave immediately before she calls the police. He and his childhood friend Richie pulled off a well-planned and spectacular Prior to his confession to the police, Tom learns that Richie is still alive and being held captive by someone later revealed to be Manzi's sadistic son, Little Lou, who has assumed control over his father's territory. A History of Violence is a side quest in New Vegas Bounties II. But, do NOT delete any.

Baseado numa história em quadrinhos da DC Comics, foi o último dos filmes de Hollywood a ser editado em VHS

A History of Violence è un film del 2005 diretto da David Cronenberg.. Il film è tratto dall'omonimo romanzo a fumetti scritto da John Wagner, illustrato da Vince Locke e pubblicato dalla Vertigo (etichetta della DC Comics) nel 1997, noto in italiano come Una storia violenta (edito dalla Magic Press).Il lungometraggio è stato presentato in concorso al 58º Festival di Cannes. Richie, however, foolishly flaunt his money in which he was easily caught by Torrino. Joey drift across the country while completely erasing his identity and eventually he changed his name to Tom McKenna.

To collect the … Tom's family then tries to think of a way to protect Tom while hoping that the mortally wounded Torrino, who is hospitalized, might prevent the mob from finding Tom. There, Tom, with a bottle of pepper spray hidden inside a fake arm cast, dispatch one of Manzi's men, taking his gun, and causing one to lose his hand.

"History of Violence" is a song performed by Canadian rock band Theory of a Deadman, a single from their seventh studio album, Say Nothing. The mobsters eventually takes Tom's son Buzz (whom Torrino immediately sees him as a spitting image of Joey) hostage and stand in front of the McKenna's house.

Se perustuu John Wagnerin sarjakuvaromaaniin Väkivaltainen tausta.. Pääosaa, kahvilanpitäjä Tom Stallia, esittää Viggo Mortensen.

It is also the source for the film of the same name directed by David Cronenberg, the first cinematic adaption of a work by John Wagner since 1995's Judge … Tom kills two more mobsters before moving into a torture room where he is shocked to finally find Richie hanging in a harness, having been horribly mutilated and tortured by Manzi for the last twenty years.

But Tom tries to avoid being in the limelight and strongly refuses to be interview by television and newspapers.

"A History of Violence":===Chapter 1: A Small Town Killing=== The story begins with two hitchhikers coldly gunned down by two robbers. Medvirkende.

He then hangs Tom by his wrists next to Richie and prepares to torture him. Tom soon receive a phone call from the mob, whom he tells Tom that his family's protection won't last forever and he is offering Richie's life for Tom's. Tom suffocates Richie in an act of euthanasia shortly before the police arrive. But the mobsters haven't actually committed any crimes, and they are left alone. Fortunately for Tom, his lawyer Cass Greer learns that the Detroit detectives failed to inform Tom his rights of course. Tom tells Richie he will get him to a hospital but Richie, no longer wanting to live, begs Tom to help him die instead. He then steps out of the house, armed with his rifle, and enters into a standoff with the mobsters. Edie is stunned by Tom's revelation, but she still love the man she is married.

Richie is being forced to speak for them to Tom, telling him that he must pay before hanging up. Manzi slips and falls onto the blade, killing him.

Manzi attacks Tom with a chainsaw, but Tom deflects the blade by holding tightly to his shackles before Manzi slips and falls onto the blade, which fatally cuts into his neck.