Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

powermandan The Accused has three things that make it great: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, and a case where lots of the blame is placed upon the victim. You must look at your own principles and see just how far in the wrong all the parties were, and the two leads make sure you think long and hard.Jodie Foster may be a child star, but this movie was her breakout role as an adult. Sure she did Taxi Driver before she was even a teenager, but in this we get the next stage of Jodie Foster. And out of all the roles in her illustrious career, I honestly think that her performance as Sarah Tobias stands as her best. Even better than Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs. Sure Silence is a better film than The Accused, but looking at both of Foster's performances it is clear that Sarah comes out superior. While Foster was the standout and the movie as a whole did receive praise, I just wish that there was more praise towards Kelly McGillis. She actually was a victim of rape when she was was young and initially wanted the part of Sarah. But she does just fine as the determined prosecutor Kathryn Murphy. Jodie Foster isn't that much better than McGillis. She is, but just by a little bit. McGillis plays the role with such conviction and power. So the general story of The Accused is a trashy young woman gets gang-raped in the back of a bar after they all get drunk, so she gets a lawyer to bring justice. The max that the rapers will get is 5 years in jail, but they will likely get out in less than a year. This is because since all the parties got drunk and Sarah was practically putting on a sleazy sex show, so she arguably instigated and provoked her own rape. I'm not siding with the perps or sympathizing with them, but she needed to be the one to control how much alcohol and pot she consumed. She is pretty low-class so she must know that creeps hang out in bars, she must have experience. But this movie is trying to say that no matter what, rape is NOT okay. The other part of the case deals with the hecklers who cheered while the rape was in session. Those guys get put behind bars, and the actual rapers get the full sentence. The lawyer that defends the hecklers is incredibly stupid as I just kept saying "Duuuuhhhhh!!" every time he finished a sentence. It is also during this last act when a flashback of the rape is shown through the honest eyes of an onlooker too scared to intervene. Even if law does not interest you, watch it just for Kelly McGillis and Jodie Foster.

Predrag 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.Foster received a well-deserved Oscar as her fearless performance of Sarah. There is a graphic rape scene towards the closing of the film that is to be expected since the main theme of this film is about the outcomes of a terrible and vicious rape. McGillis's character seeks justice from the men who raped her in a downtown bar and even goes after the men who watched and cheered on the rape and did nothing to stop it. Tom Topor wrote the outstanding screenplay. His heroine is not a clean cut responsible person but a flawed woman trying to make a living and a life. This is more realistic than other films that would have a perfect Sarah.Once you've seen this movie, you'll never forget it. It's no wonder Foster won an Oscar for this movie.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS*** Film version of the disturbing gang rape that took place in New Bedford MA. in 1983 who's shocking repercussion's are still with us today thirty years after the terrible event. Going out to have a good time at a local Bar, The Mill, after a fight with her live in drug dealing boyfriend Larry, Tom O'Brian, 21 year old Sarah Tobias, Jodie Foster, ends up getting gang raped in the bar's game room on top of the "Slam Dunk" pinball machine. With the case against Sarah's attackers weak in her being a wild and crazy kid involved in drugs and sex parties her attackers end up with nothing more then a slap on their wrists if anything at all. Feeling abused by her attackers and abandonment by the law Sarah get's the assistant D.A Kathryn Murphy, Kelly McGillis, who prosecuted the case to re-try them as well as those patrons in the bar that evening that egged them on in attacking her.With at first hesitant to re-try the case Murphy suffering from guilt feeling in letting her client Sarah Tobias down went full blast to get her justice in the crime that she suffered at the hand of her attackers. Being a somewhat loose woman with a criminal, drug passion, record it took more then court expertise and knowledge of the law to get Sarah the justice that she so rightly deserved. It took an eye whiteness to the gang rape local boy, and good friend of one of the rapists, Ken Joyce, Bernie Coulson, to brake the case wide open: In both Sarah Tobias and Kathryn Murphy's favor.Shocking in not only the crime that was committed in the film but how the victim of the crime was made as if she was the guilty party in bringing up her lifestyle that was anything but perfect. This tactic is used in the defense in many likewise rape trials by defense attorneys in trying to get their clients off: In blaming the victim not the victimizer. In truth the real life story of Sarah Tobias, really Cheryl Araujo, didn't end as happily as in the movie. Forced by threats and intimidation to leave her home in New Bedford with her husband and three children, she wasn't the loose and pot smoking party girl depicted in the film, Cheryl was killed three years later in a car accident while driving her three young daughters to a Christmas party in Miami Florida.

Michael Neumann The shocking true story of a bar room gang rape is lifted from the headlines to become, with dramatic license, a serious and troubling study of sexism at its worst, when the victim herself is accused of 'asking for it'. Jodie Foster offers a courageous performance as the tough but vulnerable Sarah Tobias, whose behavior on the night of the crime was certainly provocative, but as the flashback re-enactment shows all too clearly no amount of provocation could justify such a brutal response. Up until those final scenes the film is a well-crafted but largely conventional topical drama, with lots of predictable bonding between Foster and her conscience stricken attorney Kelly McGillis. But the attack itself, teasingly saved until the final reel, is so graphic and degrading it obliterates the memory of everything that happened earlier. The scene is pure exploitation, but it serves a purpose, putting audiences in the same, ugly position as the cheering onlookers in the bar, who in many ways were even guiltier than the rapists themselves.