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The Accused (1988)
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Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for her role in this drama, based on an actual incident. She plays a good-time girl who, while out for a night of fun at a poolroom, lets things get out of hand. Before she knows what's happening, the men she's been flirting with have pinned her down for a gang rape. The story centers on the efforts of a district attorney (Kelly McGillis) to press her case, in spite of a wall of silence by the participants--and then to take the unusual step of going after the witnesses as accomplices. Foster is outstanding as a tough, blue-collar woman who persists in what seems like an unwinnable case, despite the prospect...
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The Accused Movie Review by AJ  (4/14/2006) |
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How interesting that Kaplan, who used to make trashy low-budget exploitation films in the early 70's, made a film that many perceived as a landmark considering its subject matter, rape and female degradation. Unfortunately, I am not one to perceive the film this way...other than a pretty decent (though far from...
(complete The Accused review by AJ)
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