Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for her role in The Accused (1988), based on an actual incident. While out for a night of fun at a poolroom, before her character knows what's happening she finds that the men she's been flirting with have pinned her down for a gang rape. The story centres 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 of character assassination for standing up for herself. --Marshall Fine [show more]
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A young woman (Jodie Foster) is viciously gang-raped in a seedy bar after a seductive dance with a local man gets out of hand, but her defence lawyer (Kelly McGillis) makes a deal with the men to reduce the charge from rape to reckless endangerment. Furious, the victim takes her to task - and the two women take the onlookers to court on charges of inciting rape, in a case which made legal history.
Jodie Foster won deserved acclaim for her performance as Sarah Tobias, a hard-living, fiercely independent woman is gang raped in the back of a local bar. She finds herself battling the legal system not once but twice, as she and her attorney, Kathryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis), go after her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault. The film is based on a true situation that occurred in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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