Death Wish

Paul Kersey is an architect living in Manhattan with his wife Joanna and grown daughter Carol. They are followed home from D'Agostino's by three thugs who invade the apartment, posing as deliverymen. Paul fights back with a homemade weapon - an improvised blackjack made from a sock with two rolls of quarters in it - causing the mugger to run away. Over the next few weeks, Paul kills several people, some of whom he provokes into attacking him and others whom he sees attacking others. NYPD Lt. Frank Ochoa investigates the vigilante killings and is about to make an arrest when the District Attorney