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The Accused

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The Accused
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R,1hr 50min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1988
Director:
Jonathan Kaplan
Distributor:
Paramount Pictures
Starring:
Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson  ...more
Synopsis: Based on a real-life 1983 incident, The Accused tells the story of Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster), a working-class party girl who likes to live it up with her friends and flirt hard with the guys. After a fight with her boyfriend, she heads to a local bar to cool down -- and after a few drinks, plus some dancing and flirting, she finds herself thrown on top of a pinball machine and gang-raped by a bunch of locals, while others watch and cheer the proceedings. District attorney Kathryn Murphy (Kelly ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Jonathan Kaplan's fact-based drama, one of the most thoughtful examinations of the crime of rape on film, features an Academy award-winning performance by Jodie Foster. An account of the gang rape of a free-living waitress (Foster) by some of the male patrons of a dive bar, the film exposes the manner in which the pre-feminist blame-the-victim attitude toward rape victims, still predominant in many ... Full Review
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Kelly McGillis
Kathryn Murphy
Jodie Foster
Sarah Tobias
Bernie Coulson
Kenneth Joyce
Leo Rossi
Cliff Albrecht
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