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DVD The Accused
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 of character assassination for standing up for herself. --Marshall Fine
I don't think Jodie Foster deserved an Oscar for this role. For one thing, her accent keeps slipping between that weird southernish accent she has, and a New Jersey-esque accent. That is not something an Oscar-winner should do. Other than that her acting is good but not Oscar worthy.
The film starts out with Jodie running out of a bar, and with a man calling 911 saying a woman is being raped. The lawyer who takes her case lets the rapists plead down to some lesser charge that isn't associated with sexual assault. This makes Jodie's character very angry. The (female) lawyer begins to feel bad and wants to pin a rape-ish charge on someone. She goes against all the male partners at her firm, and prosecutes the men who watched and cheered the rapists on. If she can convict them, not only will they go to jail, but the men already in jail for the rape, will actually be convicted of rape and it will be on the books or whatever. A matter of principle I guess. That man who called 911 is the only one who can really verify that she was raped and that the others cheered it on. But he doesn't want to testify...
This film is all about man-bashing and it is painfully obvious. The man who can prove she was raped doesnt want to come forward, the rapists dont even realize they have committed rape, the male prosecutors are all against the woman lawyer who wants justice for Jodie, Jodie's boyfriend is insensitive to the fact that she was gang raped, on and on. This movie clearly sends the message "Men bad, woman (not matter how cheap and loose) good"
Jodie's character is a trashy slut. No one deserves to be raped, but she plays a real low-life in this movie. I actually liked that about the film. It wasn't some innocent virgin who just got mauled. It was a really trashy girl, so trashy that no one in the bar did anything about her rape because she was such a loose scumbag that everyone just thought it was her usual antics.
It's a good story, but the way that they made it so "all men are evil", it felt like a TV movie on Lifetime. It is pretentious in that way. The movie constantly reminds you that all the men are bad, and the woman is a poor helpless thing. If the movie didn't insist I was an idiot and barrage me with all this "insensitive male" crap, I still would have gotten the point, and I wouldn't have rolled my eyes at the movie as much as I did.
I don't feel this is worth owning, unless you are a huge Foster fan. Rent it instead.
Excellent Movie!
I loved this movie. Jodie Foster, did an excellent job acting. I know how she feels after the fact, from being a victim myself. They should treat victims with more respect in court and when they deal with the police. I hated the way those attorneys were with her in court and when they met with Katherine Murphy (Kelly Mcgillies), in the beginning. The rapists got off too easy with a sentence of 2 to 5 years in prison. They should have gotten 15 to 25 years. Sarah Tobias, should also have been given a chance to testify against her original attackers, as she did with the onlookers who clapped and cheered and encouraged the rape. I give this movie a 5 out of 5 star rating. Kudos to Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillies.
Foster is brilliant
The Accused is a powerful movie to educate the ignorant world about the law. The movie focuses on the fact that it is not only a crime to commit a rape, but it also a crime to induce, persuade, and convince a person to continue or and commit a rape. The second thing that this true story focused on was, no matter how you dress, how you act, how many lovers you've had, how you talk, or where you live, you deserve a fair trial, fair treatment, and justice like anyone else. The most brilliant thing about this film is they showed the actual rape scene. Once you see it, you have a whole new perspective on things. You sympathize for the victim even more. You also realize that she didnt ask for it what so ever. This really took place in a small town back east, but some details were changed as with all based on a true story films. The woman was actually gang raped on a pool table, not a ping ball machine. Thing movie was not a male basher. I.E. kennenth joyce, the good guy who reported the rape. He witnessed the rape, knew they were raping her, and felt sympathy for Sarah Tobias. It was just a trashy bar full of desperate guys who behaved badly and were criminals. Smiling, lifting eyebrows, and dancing, does not mean a woman is asking to get raped. She was the victim and was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. Another senstitive subject for me is these big shot defense attorneys who tear a person's character apart. They dig up past mistakes that a person made and try to make a jury think that the victim deserved it, or asked for it. Being premiscuos in the past has nothing to do with the NO MEANS NO LAW. It's your body, you can say no. Foster is a brilliant and talented actress who does not agree to roles that are meaningless. She takes her acting career seriously which is why she diagreed to Hannibal. She would not play a role in a film with no imagination or meaningful insight, i.e. pure violence. Hannibal turned out to be a horrible film anyways. Fosster knows what she is doing! Her roles are strong women, who have a lasting influence on the viewers. I.E silence of the lambs. The Accused is no exception. It's a movie I saw when I was a teeneager and never have forgotton what it stood for. During a famous rape case recently, a cab driver told me "the victim had numerous lovers, she was a bad girl." I wanted to tell him to rent the accused because bottom line, if a person is raped, it's a crime and the victim deserves as much sympathy as anyone else. Justice does not discriminate. It isnt suppose to. Only the defense attoryneys try to turn everything upside down. I was so angry when the lawyers kept saying "these men had sex with Sarah Tobias and no one knew it was a rape." Then when you see the actual rape. "Hold her down? Cover her mouth" Take turns" Um does that sound like consented sex to you? I don't think so!! They knew exactly what they were doing. Even the spectators knew. Once you've seen this movie, you'll never forget it. It's no wonder Foster won an Oscar for this movie.
This film is an intelligent examination of an easygoing doctor (Liam Neeson at his teddy bear best) and his discovery of Nell (Oscar nominee Jodie Foster), a woman who was raised in the woods with no human contact except her speech-impaired mother. The movie covers a familiar "fish out of water" story unlocking Nell's soul (by deciphering her incomprehensible language) and then taking her into the modern world. What makes Nell special is the earnest work by Neeson, Natasha Richardson (as an uptight psychologist), and a rich, small array of supporting members (journeyman Nick Searcy as the town sheriff is marvelous). At its center is another extraordinary job by Foster, who also produced. Director Michael Apted (Thunderheart) brings his regular load of realism into the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jodie Foster - Liam Neeson Director(s): Michael Apted DVD Release Date: Released the 03 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Farrah Fawcett and James Russo are outstanding for the characters they portray. The movie description: James Russo is a serial rapist and Farrah Fawcett plays the victim who manages to escape her would be (masked) rapist in the beggining of the movie. However, he still has her purse carrying her personal information and address. Marjorie goes to the police to report her attempted rape and the police inform her "it would be hard to press charges on an unknown assailant" Basically James Russo returns a week or so later back into Marjorie's life at her home to finish what he started. (now he is unmasked, and enters her home). The scenes are brutal: however if you manage to stomach Farrah Fawcett being attacked mentally, and physically you will then witness how she manages to turn the tables... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Farrah Fawcett - James Russo Director(s): Robert M. Young DVD Release Date: Released the 16 April 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Dennis Hopper directed, as well as acted in, this moody mess from 1989, which was barely seen for a couple of years until getting a boost from the rising fame of its star, Jodie Foster. Looking startlingly young, Foster plays a conceptual artist who witnesses a mob hit, thus becoming a target herself for an assassin (Hopper). But instead of killing her, Hopper's killer falls in love, demonstrating his passion by stalking her at a distance, "owning" her every move and keeping her in exile from ordinary life. The resulting isolation squeezes Foster's creative spirit, forcing her to confront doubt and self-loathing--everything that artists suffer as the price for self-expression. Deeply self-conscious, with a calculatingly meditative tone that becomes inseparable from Hopper's tenacious... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dennis Hopper - Jodie Foster Director(s): Dennis Hopper - Alan Smithee DVD Release Date: Released the 24 April 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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This controversial, 1984 made-for-television movie gave Farrah Fawcett her first true showcase as an actress. Playing an abused wife who kills her monstrous husband (Paul Le Mat), Fawcett demonstrates a facility with the moral ambiguities of the story, which concerns the painful but fascinating questions of where justice lies. Fine support from Richard Masur and Grace Zabriskie, and the assured direction is by Robert Greenwald (Xanadu. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Farrah Fawcett - Paul Le Mat Director(s): Robert Greenwald DVD Release Date: Released the 07 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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When Brandon Teena, a young man with an infectious, aw-shucks grin and an angelic face that's all angles, wanders into Falls City, Nebraska, he takes to the town like it's a second skin. In little time he's fallen in with a gang of goofy if temperamental redneck boys, found himself a girlfriend, and befriended enough people to form something of a small family. In fact, it's the best time Brandon's ever had. However, there are shadows looming over Brandon's life: a court date for grand theft auto, a checkered criminal record, and a seemingly innocuous speeding ticket that could prove to be his undoing. Why? Because as it turns out, Brandon Teena is actually Teena Brandon, a woman masquerading as a man.
