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The Accused (1988)
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Director:
Jonathan Kaplan |
COUNTRY
Canada |
GENRE
Drama |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
De
tiltalte |
RUNNING
TIME
111
minutes |
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Producer:
Stanley R. Jaffe
Sherry Lansing |
Screenwriter:
Tom Topor |
Review
A
powerful performance from an offensive-minded young Jodie Foster is at
the core of this social realism slash courtroom drama, based on
real-life events. The subject matter is rape, society's stance to it,
and the fine lines all the involved parties walk. The film is an
intelligent dissection of a harrowing act, even if director Jonathan
Kaplan lets his film become a little sloppy and simplified
during the middle part. Fortunately though, what may have seemed like
one-dimensional characters and mere surface-grazing turns out to be a
powerful and highly thought-provoking drama in a brilliant finale, in
which the story's many aspects are fully documented. Kelly McGillis
plays the D.A., looking amateurish beside the brilliant Foster.
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