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The Accused
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney Kathryn Murphy takes the case; however, she allows the rapists to receive a mild sentence. A distraught Sarah decides to seek punishment for the men who witnessed and encouraged the rape. To get justice, Sarah must take the stand and revisit the night of her attack. From TMDB
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The Accused is a 1988 crime drama film, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis and Bernie Coulson.
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60 of 159 · most liked firstI watched a movie today from the 1980’s called The Accused with Jodie Foster. America has always known that wealthy people will always be protected after committing terrible things. And just how despicable sex craved men can be and how they all look out for each other.
positive · AI labelView post →Day 16 #NoirvemberChallenge Lesser-Known #FilmNoir Everyone Should See THE ACCUSED (1949), a feminist response to the misogyny that overran the film industry in the 1940s. Dazzling performance by Loretta Young as a psychology professor who kills the student who rapes her, then covers up her crime.
neutral · AI labelView post →THE ACCUSED is surprisingly frank for a 1940s studio film. It's very clear what this guy intended to do to her. But it's also very clear that Loretta Young's character would ruin her reputation (and her life) if she went to the police. This not a manufactured dilemma. It feels real. #FilmNoirClub
positive · AI labelView post →TFH Guru Jonathan Kaplan sadly passed away on Friday morning. Jonathan directed such awesome actioners as Truck Turner & White Line Fever. But Jonathan couldn't be tied to any one genre, also helming Over The Edge, The Accused, & more. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →In the chaos of the last week I only just heard about Jonathan Kaplan passing. The Accused was obviously a major film in my book on rape-revenge cinema, and while I remain still fairly ambivalent about it, the man had some unambiguous bangers: Over the Edge (1979) if only for Matt Dillon's crop top
neutral · AI labelView post →I had an ex bf who argued with me that women often set themselves up to be raped. This was right after we watched The Accused. The way he rushed to make that argument after *that* movie was one of the reasons I dumped him. It really felt like he was trying to absolve men of any responsibility.
neutral · AI labelView post →This Wednesday at 8 PM EST/5 PM PST, I’ll be hosting the #FilmNoirClub watch party of THE ACCUSED (1949), a feminist response to the misogyny that overran the film industry – and society at large – in the late ‘40s. Link to watch: ok.ru/video/371407... Use hashtag #FilmNoirClub See you there! 😊
neutral · AI labelView post →Jodie Foster won best actress in 1989 for The Accused, but Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons, honestly, her performance was out of this world. This movie never loses its magic for me.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge #Filmsky 7/10: Trial in a movie The Accused (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →Jodie Foster starred in The Accused back in 1988. That film was shocking at the time because it was about a waitress who was brutally gang raped and the men who knew and did nothing were charged Almost 40 years later…and here we are
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of The Accused boxd.it/87AoYD Ripped from the headlines, THE ACCUSED is a grueling, yet worthwhile, examination of sexual violence & its instigators. Oscar winner Jodie Foster is complex & devastating, the trial a bit less convincing in its specifics. Adult & graphic. #filmsky 📽🎥🎬
positive · AI labelView post →For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM Watch or (Rewatch) the film "The Accused" (1988) - Dir. Jonathan Kaplan; Written by Tom Topor. Inspired by the 1983 gang rape of Cheryl Araujo in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Starring: Jodie Foster & Kelly McGillis www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RQX...
neutral · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 9/24: Someone in court in a movie "The Accused" (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →Catch Bold and the Beautiful’s Lawrence Saint-Victor in The Accused streaming on BET+ April 10 #SoapSky #BoldandtheBeautiful #BB
neutral · AI labelView post →776) The Accused (2022) #FrightClub on Peacock #MutantFam #HorrorCommunity #FilmSky #TheAccursed
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite film performances from the 1980s. Jodie Foster, Sarah Tobias, "The Accused" (directed by Jonathan Kaplan). #movies #films #favoriteperformances #jodiefoster #jonathankaplan #theaccused
neutral · AI labelView post →It means that you knowingly associated with them. See the Jody Foster movie, "The Accused." Those who stood by and watched the rape without stopping it were as guilty as the perpetrators.
neutral · AI labelView post →Friend of mine took a first date to see a Jodie Foster movie - The Accused - didn't have a second date...
neutral · AI labelView post →PYW is specific to the campus context, which is relevant to the Cornell 7. It also didn't give us graphic explicit sexual assault scenes to get the point across. PYW is a superior film to The Accused. 
neutral · AI labelView post →This. It’s the acquiescence… whether active or passive, that turns these situations into a group dynamic. This clip from The Accused gets to the heart of the point. Excellent movie. Highly recommend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0NW...
positive · AI labelView post →. Here's my list so far of Film Noir Letterboxd Lists to add THE ACCUSED (1949) I forgot to write down "[Film Noir] Libraries" & now they're in a "Nightclub" with "Band" -- OOO & now "BOXING" 🥊 Will I have to add it to "Film Noir Happy Endings"? Shh. #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FIlmNoir 🕵️ .
neutral · AI labelView post →TRUCK TURNER WHITE LINE FEVER OVER THE EDGE THE ACCUSED UNLAWFUL ENTRY RIP Jonathan Kaplan. Thanks for all the movie memories.
neutral · AI labelView post →Check out our interview with Paige Audrey-Marie Hurd and Lawrence Saint-Victor from the BET+ original film The Accused #FilmSky #TVSky Streaming where you get your podcasts and our YouTube Channel!
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching THE ACCUSED (1988). Director: Jonathan Kaplan. Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis. Foster's first Oscar win for Best Actress. #rewatch #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →We need to remind ourselves of the true story behind the 1988 movie "The Accused." The DA went after the men who watched and cheered during the rape and were found guilty.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jodie Foster played her in "The Accused" and won an Oscar. Watch that movie and see how she is the role model for "blaming the victim". That victim died 4 yrs later in a car accident, at 25. She had a short hard life.
neutral · AI labelView post →. Film Noir mirrors THE ACCUSED (1949) Digging all the semantics. #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FIlmNoir 🕵️ .
neutral · AI labelView post →It makes me feel dreadfully old to read The Accused described as "a movie from the 1980s". It's one of THE BEST MOVIES of the 1980s. One that I've only ever been able to watch once. No matter how brilliant I know it truly is, I cannot bring myself to watch it again.
positive · AI labelView post →in college, had been hot for a girl for some time, finally asked her on real date to the cheapo university movie theater (whatever would be showing). when Friday came, movie was The Accused. no second date.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm the genius who asked a girl out to the cheap movie by the university and it turned out the movie playing was The Accused
neutral · AI labelView post →I screened BET+ new original movie The Accused. It does a good job highlight the issues the community face with healthcare. #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →The Accused … shattering film 🙏
positive · AI labelView post →This is why Promising Young Woman is such a great movie. It throws up a mirror to all the "good guys", hanging out in the group chat. 👍🏼 Want to see a good horror movie? -The Accused -The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo -Promising Young Woman -Your Monster (you HAVE to watch to the end) -Binge FURIOUS
neutral · AI labelView post →I was drama student and a big fan of Jodie Foster. I didn’t want to see the movie The Accused but she was up for an Oscar so I went. I left the movie theater so enraged that I began my career as an author, lecturer and advocate for survivors that lasted decades.
neutral · AI labelView post →. TONIGHT'S Film Noir Club Watch Party starts in 15 minutes THE ACCUSED (1949) #FilmNoirClub 🗝️ #FIlmNoir 🕵️ .
neutral · AI labelView post →Heard an interview with Jodie Foster this AM and how the hell could I have forgotten: Taxi Driver (13 yr old prostitute), The Accused (a movie I've scrubbed from my memory) AND Silence of the Lambs? JFC. Oh, and a nut trying to kill the president to impress you.
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Jonathan Kaplan. OVER THE EDGE is one of the all-time great movies. Hell of an interesting filmography beyond that too—wild and far-ranging. TRUCK TURNER, THE ACCUSED, UNLAWFUL ENTRY, THE STUDENT TEACHERS, DEATH RIDE TO OSAKA, LOVE FIELD…Plus, ER. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →In high school, I let a first date choose the movie. She chose “The Accused”. A. First. Date. There wasn’t a second.
neutral · AI labelView post →TUNE-IN ALERT: B&B’s Lawrence Saint-Victor Stars in BET+ Original Movie ‘The Accused’ - #BETplus #BoldandBeautiful LSV's new movie drops today on the streamer - check him out as Detective Lance Branson, full details here bit.ly/3YrDHHr 👏
neutral · AI labelView post →TV NEWS | Get ready to watch "The Bold and the Beautiful" star Lawrence Saint-Victor (Carter Walton) take on "The Accused" as a police detective in all-new BET+ original movie. #BoldandBeautiful #TheAccused #BETPlus www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/03/bet-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a wonderful chat this week with the folks who run RAWS: Remember the Accused Witches of Scotland. We talked movie witches but its important to remember that the word witch is both a signifier of a LEGIT spiritual path AND a cudgel of oppression. Thank you RAWS for remember the victims.
neutral · AI labelView post →This whole Cornell heinousness reminds me of the movie “The ACCUSED” With Jodie Foster.
neutral · AI labelView post →It reminds me of the movie "The Accused." Gang raped not in a college setting but a bar, the rest is the same.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Accused is basically a movie about Jodie Foster getting gang raped for the final 30 minutes, and she won an Oscar for it #ISpitOnYourGrave #MutantFam @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social #MutantFam
neutral · AI labelView post →Not a Mainer either, but this guy really needs to see the Jodie Foster movie "The Accused."
neutral · AI labelView post →Check out our interview with Paige Audrey-Marie Hurd and Lawrence Saint-Victor from the BET+ original film The Accused #FilmSky #TVSky Streaming where you get your podcasts and our YouTube Channel!
neutral · AI labelView post →TV NEWS | Get ready to watch "The Bold and the Beautiful" star Lawrence Saint-Victor (Carter Walton) take on "The Accused" as a police detective in all-new BET+ original movie. #BoldandBeautiful #TheAccused #BETPlus www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/03/bet-...
neutral · AI labelView post →The basis of the 1949 film noir The Accused, with Loretta Young, Robert Cummings, and my man Wendell Corey. I have a project of reading novels that were adapted into movies, especially noirs, so this goes on the list.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw the movie The Accused. It changed how I walked anywhere.
neutral · AI labelView post →The film with Jodie Foster named The Accused was released in 1988 There is a 5 person rape scene in the film
neutral · AI labelView post →Our latest episode in our #SEXtember Part Deux series is 1972's NIGHT CALL NURSES, directed by Jonathan Kaplan (THE ACCUSED, TRUCK TURNER, UNLAWFUL ENTRY). Not sure what a NURSES movie is? Let's explore in a short 🧵!
neutral · AI labelView post →#NoirvemberChallenge Day 3: Favorite #FilmNoir That You Recently Discovered: A tough question - I’m learning about new tittles all the time. The Accused (1949) I was curious about how the topic of sexual assault would be dealt with in a 1949 film - especially from the victim's perspective. 1/2
positive · AI labelView post →The Cornell 7 are justifiably getting the most scrutiny In the movie THE ACCUSED (based on a true story) there was a successful prosecution of onlookers, persons who stood by and did nothing 57 men at Cornell in the group chat who witnessed crimes and did nothing must be prosecuted
neutral · AI labelView post →I read today that there were 57 ‘men’ in the frat chat at Cornell. 57 men saw those posts and did nothing. The more I read about this the more I’m reminded of the Jodi Foster movie The Accused.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Accused, starring Jodie Foster. Everyone that stood by and did nothing, should be forced to wstch that film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I knew this was coming and I do have to apologize. I haven't seen the movie you are talking about but do intend to watch it. The Accused point was charging the people watching and routing on the offenders. Take care be well.
neutral · AI labelView post →[CW: rape] The more I hear about the Cornell rape the more it reminds me of what happened to Cheryl Araujo. It later inspired the Jodie Foster movie 'The Accused', but when the original trial hit national media I was 14. It frightened and haunted me. There is no safety in numbers when you're prey.
neutral · AI labelView post →That news triggers memories of the gang rape of 21 yr-old Cheryl Araujo (1983). The Accused movie starring Jodie Foster (1988) was based on her case; illuminated the mistreatment of sexual assault survivors & legal responsibilities of bystanders + spotlighted the defense template for victim-blaming.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this quote from Jodie Foster when she was promoting the movie The Accused: if I see something beautiful I don’t want to destroy it. These men, these boys, these human beings, saw something beautiful and wanted to destroy it.This behavior is nothing new. Tech has just made it easier and worse.
neutral · AI labelView post →This reminds me so much of the scene in Jodie Foster’s movie “The Accused”. The only thing missing is the pinball machine.
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