The Accused

You'll never quite look at pinball the same way again.

I want to like this movie, and respect it for its difficult and sensitive subject matter; my problem, though, is the rape scene. Specifically, why did we really need to see all that, right down to that one guy's nasty rape face? This is an extremely painful film, that tells me, as a woman, little to nothing that wasn't blatantly obvious already. Filled me with hate.

Foster is great but the entire movie feels really manipulative. It certainly provides some good food for thought but it's not something I'm eager to watch again.

Foster gives a worthy performance, and the film's simple structure (it begins moments after the crime and ends with a flashback to it) works well. It stretches believability a few times, though - particularly in that one scene with that overzealous dude with the tattoo.

Elementary Rape Education, based very loosely on erroneous news accounts of an actual incident that reportedly took place in front of cheering onlookers in a public bar. Topor, author of _Nuts_, gets to grind his same anti-judiciary axe about putting an honest but "unpresentable" witness on the stand; and although the dubious moral character of the victim -- "a low-class bimbo," in her own words -- gives the case some useful stickiness, it also lets in some deplorable social condescension.

So many stink eyes from the old woman juror during this. They'd remake this today and everyone would have their cellphone out hootin "worldstarhiphop"

Okay movie if your into based on true event films, normally I am but I didn't have any sympathy for this character

Foster's Oscar-winning performance far outclasses the exploitative nature of this film. She's a must-see.

Different kind of rape-revenge movie, but in a good way.

Nice courtroom drama; best remembered today for the startling and effective rape scene. Jodie Foster's performance is pretty good, as is Kelly McGillis. And yeah, it is very 80's so proceed with caution on that front, I guess.

Foster is excellent but it's a bit of a grim go. Overall I thought it was well made.

hmmm, ret god - og som oftest er Foster rigtig god...

People with Y chromosomes should not tell stories about women because I took a Gender Studies course. Immoral. Shameful. Patriarchical.

Foster refuses to rely on sympathy in this brave performance as a rape victim who also happens to be a bimbo, and Foster and McGillis (as her lawyer) are very good together. The screenplay, however, is kind of obvious and the direction is often exploitative and finally--in the rape sequence, saved pruriently for the end--just plain sleazy.

A powerful film that makes me wish the attitudes and laws in it were as dated as the fashions and music.

A terrific look at human behavior and the law.

Great movie, but utterly unwatchable due to the subject matter.

Apart from a pretty good performance by Jodie Foster (Oscar worthy I'm not so sure), The Accused ends up being just average. It wasn't particularly interesting and most of the best of the film comes at the end, and the film didn't exactly make it worthwhile to watch it to that end.

Unforgettable movie about how truly horrifying rape is

Unconvincing problem picture that fails to explore the issues it raises.

Really strong acting. The rape scene is very visceral and effective.

Eh, y'know, it's a pretty good movie and all, but it's not really entertaining or interesting or moving enough for me to ever watch again.

Mullet bro's inner turmoil over whether or not to sell his gang rapist friend up the river makes me laugh.

Powerful and sad.

Overall, this film is kind of average. Even Foster's performance, while fantastic, did not deserve to win over such masterful turns as Meryl Streep in "A Cry in the Dark" and Sigourney Weaver in "Gorillas in the Mist." And to all those who think that this film is practically "unwatchable" due to the rape scene need to check out "Irreversible." Said scene in that film makes the rape in this look like a slow dance at the prom.

Not bad.

I would recommend this movie based on Jodie Foster's performance. As a courtroom drama it is nothing spectacular but the acting is good.

Jodie Foster's performance is astounding - a well deserved Oscar. The rape scene itself is one of the most chilling and disturbing images I've ever seen on screen - I can still picture it in my head now.

This movie makes me want to kill everything.

Compelling, with a good (and Oscar-winning) performance by Foster, daring for mainstream Hollywood but still beautifies and commercializes the reality it's supposed to depict. Portuguese-American Cheryl Araujo on whose rape case this is based, is replaced by an ethnically neutral Sarah Tobias. In a plot some describe as "educational", men who cheered and goaded Sarah's rapists are tried, while in Araujo's case (as always in reality) they were never even sought. A little too easy, all around.

Quite entertaining, melodramatic plot.

fine example of courtroom drama

The movie is not good but you'd better to watch it.

Foster is great in an otherwise mediocre procedural. Any appreciated subtly is lost when the filmmakers decided it was necessary to show the crime It wasn't.