
Jodie Foster won deserved acclaim for her performance as Sarah Tobias a hard-living fiercely independent woman is gang raped in the back of a local bar She finds herself battling the legal system not once but twice as she & her attorney Kathryn Murphy (Kelly Mc Gillis) go after her attackers & the onlookers whose cheering fueled & encouraged the assault The film is based on a true situation that occurred in New Bedford Massachusetts