Revenge is a 1990 American romantic thriller film directed by Tony Scott and starring Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, Miguel Ferrer and Sally Kirkland.

He receives a matched pair of Beretta shotguns and an invitation from his wealthy friend, Tiburon "Tibey" Mendez to spend time at his hacienda in Mexico.

In Mexico, Cochran meets Tibey's beautiful young wife, Miryea, who lives in lavish surroundings, but is unhappy because her much older husband does not want to have any children, feeling pregnancy would spoil her looks.

But he rubs Tibey's suspicious right-hand man Cesar the wrong way by behaving independently and not acting like an employee.

After a dinner, Tibey conducts a private meeting with business associates, killing one of them, while elsewhere Miryea and Jay get better acquainted; they develop a romantic attraction towards each other.

Miryea begs Jay to stay and, having fallen in love with her, he agrees and they arrange a secret rendezvous at a remote cabin in Mexico.

Tibey slashes Miryea across her face with a switchblade (creating half a Glasgow smile) as his henchmen viciously beat Jay into unconsciousness.

The madame initially rejects her due to her now-disfigured face but agrees to relegate Miryea to "common use".

Under Tibey's orders, Miryea is repeatedly drugged, abused, and raped by numerous men on a daily basis.

After a day on the road, the Texan delivers the horse to a wealthy man who recognizes Jay from an afternoon at Tibey's estate.

"[9] Producer Ray Stark eventually acquired the rights from Warner Bros in exchange for the film Bird.

[11] In 1987, New World Pictures teamed up with Rastar to co-own feature film rights to the Revenge project.

[13] Some shooting took place in Sierra de Órganos National Park in the town of Sombrerete, Mexico.

Director Tony Scott would lend several assets from his prior making of Top Gun, including access to the Navy personnel to arrange footage of F-14s over rough desert terrain.

Viewers would also recognize the familiar cockpit simulators in Revenge's opening sequence as those used in Top Gun.

[18] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B− on scale of A to F.[19] Variety wrote, "This far-from-perfect rendering of Jim Harrison's shimmering novella has a romantic sweep and elemental power that ultimately transcend its flaws.

[21] Roger Ebert, writing for The Chicago Sun-Times, rated it 2.5 out of 4 stars and wrote that the film "plays like a showdown between its style and its story.