The Accused
1988, Drama, 1h 50m
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Cast & Crew
Kathryn Murphy
Sarah Tobias
Ken Joyce
Cliff 'Scorpion' Albrect
Sally Fraser
D.A. Paul Rudolph
Critic Reviews for The Accused
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (2)
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The Accused demonstrates that rape victims often are suspects in their own cases.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
It compares very favorably with movies like The Good Mother, in which bad girls/sexual women make their bed, of nails, and are then told they better bloody well lie in it.
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Kelly McGillis can make little of her underwritten role; economy is commend-able, but a woman in all her complexity cannot be represented by a pair of outsize shoulder-pads.
April 11, 2019 | Full Review… -
This performance didn't just win an Oscar. It won the hearts of every woman who has ever had to endure the horror of assault and the continued injustice of having to fight against prejudice and a legal system steeped in patriarchy, to be heard.
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March 13, 2006 | Rating: 4/5 -
Possibly the best performance Foster has even given, and the best of its type
February 7, 2006 | Rating: 4/5
Audience Reviews for The Accused
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Apr 03, 2021Essential. 'The Accused' demands discussion rather than "solves the problem", because frankly, how could it? It's a candid dissection of how regularly extreme cases of violence against women are shelved and stifled by factors other that the pertinent, simply because IT'S EASIER. It's unflinching, it's complex, it upset me, it is anchored by an important relationship between women (McGillis is solid, but Foster is excellent), and - though the film teeters into the melodramatic at moments - it drove me to angry tears on multiple occasions. Constructed to enrage as well as educate, there's no hand-holding throughout this and thank God for that. The "bad guys" are not merely the rapists, but we as a collective for what we justify and thus allow to endure, whether you're male or female, a bystander in a bar, a prosecutor in a court room, a state lawmaker, a reporter delivering the evening news, or merely a viewer on the couch. At the heart of it all, there is always a woman whose life is destroyed while being reminded systematically that what happened to her "doesn't really matter". 33 years later, not a drop of this film is outdated. Fine, maybe the hairstyles. andmaybethescore.Marisol M Super Reviewer
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Feb 19, 2019So hard to watch. Great acting.Super Reviewer
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Mar 28, 2017Jodie Foster delivers the goods and how (a shotgun in your face, think young Brando's Kowalski) as a white trash waitress who is cruelly victimized and so must fight for her human dignity. Released in 1988 this one is beginning to show it's age but Foster's performance keeps everything else glued together.Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
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Feb 25, 2015Jodie Foster & Kelly McGillis' empowering performances shed light on a dark and difficult story. The Accused is gut-wrenching and somewhat unbearable to view that it leaves its audience speechless, emotional and cautious of this heinous action/situation that still occurs to this day. 4/5Eugene B Super Reviewer
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