See this film: A History of Violence @ the Coolidge

Winner of this year's Coolidge Award, Viggo Mortensen has brought to life characters ranging from the regal Aragorn in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy to the adulterous "blouse man" in Tony Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon (1999). Perhaps he has done his best and edgiest work in collaboration with David Cronenberg, as is the case in A History of Violence (2005), about a mild-mannered small town family man who is in fact a ruthless assassin trying to escape his past. It screens at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline | Tuesday, February 28 @ 7 pm | 617. 734.2501 or coolidge.org.