Death Sentence is a 2007 film loosely based on the 1975 novel by Brian Garfield. The film is directed by Saw director James Wan, and stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, a man who becomes a vengeful vigilante killer after his son is murdered by a gang as an initiation ritual. It was filmed at and it took place in Columbia, South Carolina.The film begins with home videos of the Hume family – Nick (Kevin Bacon), Helen (Kelly Preston), Brendan (Stuart Lafferty), and their youngest son Lucas (Jordan Garrett). Nick gives Brendan a hockey stick for Christmas, and then teaches him how to hit a puck (along with his hockey skills progressively getting better, including being awarded MVP for his team). Lucas is more like his mother, and likes to paint. Nick works as a risk assessment executive for a big firm.
