{"id":43217,"date":"2026-11-11T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43217"},"modified":"2026-11-08T21:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:56:37","slug":"43217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43217","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A History of Violence&#8221; (2005) directed by David Cronenberg, starring Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris and William Hurt \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z111026zview_historyviolence.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>A History of Violence <\/i>(2005)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>David Cronenberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Josh Olson; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B0iSidMBM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A History of Violence<\/em><\/a> by <strong>John Wagner<\/strong> &amp;\u00a0<strong>Vince Locke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Peter MacNeill <\/strong>and <strong>Ed Harris<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Tom Stall had the perfect life&#8230; until he became a hero.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tom Stall is the mild-mannered owner of a small diner in a quiet Indiana town.\u00a0 Tom is married to Edie.\u00a0 They have two teenaged children, Jack and Sarah.\u00a0 Life is good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That changes when two wanted murderers attempt to rob Tom&#8217;s diner.\u00a0 When his waitress is threatened Tom springs into action.\u00a0 With surprising ease Tom kills both thugs. As word spreads Tom is celebrated as a hero.\u00a0 The story makes the national news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not long after, Carl Fogarty, a Philadelphia mobster shows up. Fogarty contends that Tom is actually Joey Cusack, a mob hitman.\u00a0 Tom is shocked and denies it.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Tom is or isn&#8217;t Joey Cusack, is of little matter.\u00a0 Tom and his family are now targets of the mob.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A History of Violence<\/em> was nominated for two 2006 <em>Academy Awards<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay<\/em> <strong>&#8211; Josh Olson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role<\/em><strong> &#8211; William Hurt<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">William Hurt&#8217;s well deserved <em>Best Supporting Actor Oscar<\/em> nomination was the result of his only scene which lasted less than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><em>A History of Violence<\/em> was adapted from the graphic novel by John Wagner &amp; Vincent Locke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The thing that stayed with me after watching <em>A History of Violence<\/em> was the dual nature in all of us. So\u2026 was Viggo really Tom Stall or Joey Cusak? The things that Joey did that made him a killer were the same actions that made Tom Stall a hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>A History of Violence <\/i>(2005)<\/strong> rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z111026zview_historyviolence2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A History of Violence (2005) Director:\u00a0 David Cronenberg Screenplay: \u00a0Josh Olson; based on A History of Violence by John Wagner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,56,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-comics","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43423,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43217\/revisions\/43423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}