The Accused - Jodie Foster [DVD]

it’s a fantastic film

I saw The Accused when it first came out quite some years ago. Jodie Foster phenomenal actress and film covering a deeply disturbing rape of a young woman (Jodie Foster) having to hustle her way through life to make ends meet, as some others at the back of a bar cheer along, but it is also the questions it raises in its multifaceted layers than unfold that makes it a critical watch for young people and adults. No wonder she won and was nominated for so quite a few awards for this film, and so well deserved. I think it is certainly worth an investment of anyone's time- age appropriate of course.

This 1988 drama opens with a college student running out of a roadside bar and calling the police to report an assault on a girl, moments later a dishevelled girl runs out of the same bar. So begins the tale of Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster) as she makes accusations of rape against three men whilst others cheer and goad them on. Enter Kathryn Murphy (Kelly McGillis) as the assistant district attorney assigned to the case. The problem is Sarah has a liberated lifestyle, drinking heavily, using pot, going to bars on her own and lives with her latest boyfriend in an isolated caravan. There is little chance of a conviction so Kathryn plea bargains for a lesser charge [which excludes rape] and the men are given a short sentence. Sarah feels betrayed and eventually Kathryn decides to bring charges of ‘solicitation to rape’ against those that cheered them on and the real film begins. For a film dealing with a vicious and violent rape, the sex is very low key and until the end we only get the spoken descriptions. This is a great strength of the film as we do not really know the extent of Sarah’ ‘willingness’ as Kathryn is always thrown onto her back foot as Sarah continually hides information, whereas many other films would have turned this into a sexploitation movie. Instead we get a clever and moving film in which Sarah has to prove she’s not the ‘trailer trash’ everyone thinks she is. This film was one of the first of its genre to deal with rape in a direct manner, and identified onlookers as just as guilty as the perpetrators of the crime. The movie also sparked a massive ’No! means No!” anti rape campaign bringing the crime fully into public view. Excellently acted, this is a definite ***** movie and shouldn’t be missed.

This is a traumatic film and not suitable for those with a low tolerance for men violating a woman. There is a very explicit scene in this film that would upset many female viewers. That being said, this is a powerful film and well worth watching if you can deal with the subject matter. I gave this four stars and not five because Jodie Foster's diction is not great and sometimes it was hard to know what she was saying.

Great film,the old ones are the best,jodie foster is great in this film,worth a watch,but got to say,with it being a old film,it should of been free :)

I’m delighted to receive this DVD,I bought the very same DVD when it first came out and it was really enjoyable hence why i bought it again.

Jodie foster played this character well , it is a hard fielm to watch at times but being took from true life it is worth watching to see them disgusting men get what’s coming to them , n not giveing up n amazing attorney

Fab

Muy bien hecha, super recomendable, está edición no cuenta con subtítulos

una película dura pero es una gran pelicula.

本当にレイプだ。かを問う作品。

Great Movie

GOOD QUALITY