Kelly McGillis

Jodie Foster

Bernie Coulson

Leo Rossi

Ann Hearn

Carmen Argenziano

Steve Antin

Tom O'Brien

Peter Van Norden

Terry David Mulligan

Woody Brown

Scott Paulin

Kim Kondrashoff

Stephen E. Miller

Tom Heaton

Andrew Kavadas

Tom McBeath

Rose Weaver

Linda Darlow

Veena Sood

Allan Lysell

Antony Holland

Kevin McNulty

Jerry Wasserman

Barney O'Sullivan

Christianne Hirt

Frances Flanagan

Marsha Andrews

Mike Winlaw

Pamela Martin

Walter Marsh

Deryl Hayes

E. Andrea Klann

Bryan Johnson

Dana Still

Denalda Williams

Babs Chula

Peter Bibby

Rebecca Toolan

Stephen Dimopoulos

Laurie O'Byrne

Freda Perry

John H. Cox

Jim Bedard

Kirsten Keane

David Sheridan

Garry Chalk

Garwin Sanford

Gloria Lee

Stephen Brent Lambert

Matt LaFleur

Michele Goodger

Scott Walden

Jim Browning

David Paul Hewitt White

Tom Topor

Jonathan Kaplan

Stanley R. Jaffe

Deborah Wallach

Jack Roe

Sandy Cooper

Lara Fox

Sheila Haley

Barry W. Brolly

Trish Keating

Ira Spiegel

Paul F. Birkett

Sally Dennison

Louis Bertini

Allan K. Rosen

Brad Fiedel

Richard Wilcox

Michael Kirchberger

Gerald B. Greenberg

Kerrie Cullen

Tammy Oates

Julie Selzer

Sherry Linder-Gygli

David W. Rose

Ralf D. Bode

Neil L. Kaufman

Gary Paller

Debbie Geaghan

Sherry Lansing

Mike Rennison

Bitty O'Sullivan-Smith

Crime

Drama

The Accused

Paramount Pictures Canada

Paramount Pictures

Jaffe-Lansing

Canada

United States of America

English

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We start this film with the image of a young woman, half dressed, running in the rain screaming for help. It turns out she is "Sarah" (Jodie Foster) and after a passer-by takes her to hospital we learn that she has been gang raped in the games room of a bar. Deputy DA "Murphy" (Kelly McGillis) is assigned to the case, and although she believes her client, she is reluctant to prosecute as she doesn't think she can win. Her DA boss "Rudolph" (Carmen Argenziano) insists that they must change the accused three men with something, so they settle on a lesser charge after some plea bargaining. Needless to say, "Sarah" is livid, and tempers really flare when one of the other men from the bar that night, goads her into ramming her car into his. This is the point when the ambitious lawyer has a bit of a volte-face and despite the objections this time of her boss, she initiates a prosecution of the others in the bar for egging on the rapists - criminal solicitation. Can she prove these men are guilty? If so, that will also ensure those who got off lightly will also end up serving full sentences and have the nature of their sexual assaults placed on their criminal records. Foster is impressive here. She offers us a compelling portrayal of a young woman who suffers an heinous assault and struggles for justice. McGillis also delivers well, as does Bernie Coulson - the young "Ken" upon whom much of the chances of conviction rest. The graphically violent scenes towards the end of the trial stages are harrowing, disturbing and effective, and they also provide for an unnervingly nauseating performance from the vocal architect of her assault "Scorpion" (Leo Rossi). The drama is tough to watch, and offers food for thought as to just how victims can ever receive fair treatment in a legal environment that all too frequently takes a "was she asking for it?" approach, and is so oft just automatically stacked against them.

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