The Accused
by Jonathan Kaplan
List Price:
Our Price: $8.49
You Save: $1.49 (15%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $3.65 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Ann Hearn, Bernie Coulson, Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis, Leo RossiDirector: Jonathan Kaplan
Brand: FOSTER,JODIE
Cinematographer: Ralf D. Bode
Editor: Gerald B. Greenberg
Editor: O. Nicholas Brown
Producer: Jack Roe
Producer: Sherry Lansing
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe
Writer: Tom Topor
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Accused
Movie Review: "The Most Graphic Case of Rape On Film"
Summary: 5 Stars
The Accused" is based on an actual true story of a woman who was brutally gang raped by three men. Jodie Foster plays Sara Tobias, who goes to a roadside bar one night after arguing with her boyfriend. Friendly dancing and chitchat leads Sara to be put on top of a jukebox by a man who rapes her. Two other men join in on the rape, while others watch and cheer as if they were at a sporting event. The film is about a woman who hires an attorney to bring her assailants to justice, as well as seeing that those who applauded the rapes are also charged.
Jodie Foster became a certifiable actress in "The Accused", for she won 1988's Oscar as Best Actress, and also brought rape issues to the forefront of American consciousness. Kelly McGillis, who is a rape survivor in real life, plays the attorney who fights for Sara and others like her.
An eye-opening and raw film, "The Accused" is not for everyone. The script, direction, and acting are all top-notch, but the subject matter is unsettling. However, this sort of film needed to be made to show others how brutal men can be to their female counterparts.
The hardest scene in the film to watch is the gang rape itself: producers wisely showed it toward the end of the film so we could get to know the character of Sara and feel for her attack. Jodie Foster actually blacked out while doing the rape scene, and the men who played the attackers had a hard time performing the graphic and horrifying rapes. Jodie had to calm the actors down and help them through their scenes.
"The Accused" comes with the theatrical trailer and is in widescreen format, but unfortunately there are no other bonuses. It would have been nice if a documentary on the movie would have been included.
The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Summary of The Accused
A young woman is gang raped in a bar. She battles the legal system twice as she and her attorney go after both her attackers and the bystanders who cheered them on.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 28-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD
Jodie Foster won her first Oscar for her role in this drama, based on an actual incident. She plays a girl out for a night of fun at a poolroom. Before she knows what's happening, the men she's been flirting with have pinned her down for a gang rape. The story centers on the efforts of a district attorney (Kelly McGillis) to press her case, in spite of a wall of silence by the participants--and then to take the unusual step of going after the witnesses as accomplices. Foster is outstanding as a tough, blue-collar woman who persists in what seems like an unwinnable case, despite the prospect of character assassination for standing up for herself. --Marshall Fine
Drama DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Best Actress Oscar Winners! Part 3 (1982-2008).
The ReaderGenius; Release date: 2009-04-14; DVD
Best price: $12.44
Price in other shops:
La Vie en Rose (Extended Version)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2007-11-13; DVD
Best price: $13.75
Price in other shops:
The QueenBuena Vista Home Video; Release date: 2007-04-24; DVD
Best price: $3.96
Price in other shops:
Walk the Line (Widescreen Edition)TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2006-02-28; DVD
Best price: $4.97
Price in other shops:
Million Dollar Baby (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)Warner Home Video; Release date: 2005-07-12; DVD
Best price: $1.80
Price in other shops:
MonsterSony; Release date: 2004-06-01; DVD
Best price: $4.27
Price in other shops:
The HoursParamount; Release date: 2003-06-24; DVD
Best price: $4.15
Price in other shops:
Monster's BallLions Gate; Release date: 2002-06-11; DVD
Best price: $4.96
Price in other shops:
Erin BrockovichUniversal; Release date: 2000-08-15; DVD
Best price: $3.50
Price in other shops:
Boys Don't CryTwentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2000-04-18; DVD
Best price: $5.75
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
A Time to KillWarner Brothers; Release date: 1997-03-26; DVD
Best price: $6.07
Price in other shops:
The Shawshank Redemption (Single Disc Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2007-05-15; DVD
Best price: $5.86
Price in other shops:
ExtremitiesRelease date: 2002-04-16; DVD
Best price: $6.88
Price in other shops:
ContactWarner Brothers; Release date: 1997-12-30; DVD
Best price: $4.72
Price in other shops:
Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)Sony; Release date: 2007-08-14; DVD
Best price: $9.75
Price in other shops:
12 Angry Men (50th Anniversary Edition)TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2008-03-04; DVD
Best price: $7.49
Price in other shops:
SommersbyWarner Brothers; Release date: 1999-09-21; DVD
Best price: $8.39
Price in other shops:
The Silence of the Lambs (Criterion Collection Spine #13)Release date: 1998-07-15; DVD
Best price: $23.30
Price in other shops:
The Brave One (Widescreen Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2008-02-05; DVD
Best price: $2.40
Price in other shops:
NellTwentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2004-02-03; DVD
Best price: $4.59
Price in other shops: