Miranda's Victim

سنة 1966 طلع القانون المشهور اللي لحد اليوم تسمعه بالأفلام الأمريكية: "لك الحق في التزام الصمت، أي شيء تقوله يمكن استخدامه ضدك في المحكمة..." هذا القانون صار اسمه قانون ميراندا نسبة للمجرم، مو للضحية!

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This is my first review here and I felt like I had to write one for this movie. It was amazing. The performance by Abigail Breslin is incredible. She was absolutely perfect for this role. Luke Wilson, Emily VanCamp, Enrique Murciano, Brent Sexton, and cast were all great! I have never heard this story before and it breaks my heart knowing what she had to go through. I fear even today that things have not changed with not believing the victim but I hope it has on some level. I don't think I have seen anyone comment about this but that Dr. Crawford really made me mad in the beginning! It takes a brave person to go into an ER and do a rape exam. I hope doctors are a little more supportive now. Great movie!!

I'm reading a lot of positive reviews and a list of festival awards for this movie but I don't feel the same. This movie tried too hard IMO. The acting looks forced and very trite. I cringed at some of the line deliveries from the very first scene. There is also some odd cinematography choices. One of them being when Trish and her mom and Trish and her sister are talking. The actors are spaced as bookends for a poster or painting in the middle of the screen. I know people are praising the acting in this movie but honestly I found the acting to be cliché and awkward. In some of the scenes it looks like the actor(s) forgot their lines, remembered them, then kept going and that is the take the director used. This movie is kin to an After School Special where we learn something through dramatic storytelling, Oh, and Luke Wilson playing a lawyer made me think in Movie Land that he is married to Elle Woods and the kids he shows pictures to another character are theirs.

IN A NUTSHELL: One of the courses I currently teach at a university is Politics, so I was especially interested in seeing how this story would be told. Already, it has 25 wins and 8 nominations! The dramatic movie was directed by Michelle Danner, and written by George Kolber, Richard Lasser, and J. Craig Stiles. THINGS I LIKED: The terrific cast includes Abigail Breslin, Donald Sutherland, Andy Garcia, Luke Wilson, Emily VanCamp, Enrique Murciano, Mireille Enos, Nolan Gould, Joshua Bowman, Sebastian Quinn, and Ryan Phillippe. Academy Award-nominated Abigail Breslin did a terrific job in the leading role. We all fell in love with her when she appeared in the 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine. I first noticed her as the darling little girl in Signs in 2002. I'm so happy for her to land this movie. She successfully portrayed a frightened, young girl and slowly showed subtle degrees of maturity, forgiveness, courage, and even dignity as the years passed after the rape. Well done! I appreciated the fact that the film was directed by a woman because she was able to sensitively show the various reactions of the crime by the featured women in the story. There is a clip shown from the movie To Kill a Mockingbird. Great movie. Young viewers might find it hard to believe that people didn't just easily say the names of male and female genitalia like they do now. I thought the film represented how "good girls" actually behaved back in 1963 and how completely devastating being raped as an 18-year-old virgin it would have been for Trish Weir. Fun fact: Emily VanCamp and Josh Bowman also starred together in the 2011 film They are now married in real life! The emotional heft is strong throughout the entire film. Get your tissues ready. Keep watching during the final rolling credits to see photos of some of the real people involved in the events shown in the movie. We also get to read what happened to them and where they are now. One of the final shots shows that out of 1000 rape cases, only 5 of the rapists are actually convicted. That is so wrong and abhorrent in many ways. The film offers a phone number to call if you or someone you know has been a victim. Kudos to the team for creating a very accurate 1960s period piece that truly looks and feels spot on. It was George Kolber, one of the producers, who found Trish Weir and got her permission to tell her side of the story. Wow, she was brave then and is still now. THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE: Some of the transitions between scenes were choppy. There is a strange green screen in Act 1. This is a heavy film to watch because of the subject matter. Some viewers might be confused by the non-linear storytelling method, as the timeline jumps around quite a bit. One thing the movie doesn't address is why a married man would kidnap and rape a young girl. Ernest Mirando deserved to rot in jail. It's so frustrating to watch the courtroom trials. What a filthy scumbag Ernest was. TIPS FOR PARENTS: A lot of talk of rape with some dramatization of the events Two F-bombs Some blood .

Everyone knows the Miranda Rights, but I had never heard the actual story of how they came to be before watching this movie. The writing is very well done, pulling from mysteries, crime procedurals, and courtroom dramas to keep you on your toes and in the moment. The acting is phenomenal, as you could guess from the cast list. Abigail Breslin and Sebastian Quinn absolutely deserve nominations for their performances. In the past, I've started steering clear of movies around assault because it's so often depicted in a glorified or exploitative way. Miranda's Victim was not the case at all. The sensitive subject matter is handled with such care and dignity, and the real-life survivor the movie is based on was involved throughout the process, which speaks volumes. Top if off with a phenomenal directorial vision, beautiful cinematography, and a passionate team that really truly cares about telling this story, and you have a great film start to finish. They actually stayed so close to real life that a lot of the lines are pulled straight from evidence files and court documents, yet the ending is poignant and satisfying. I can't say enough. Absolutely take the time to watch it -- you won't be disappointed.

The story is amazing, captivating and surprisingly has never been told before. Donald Sutherland, Andy Garcia and Abigail Breslin did an amazing performance. Safe to say that this film is a great example of where characters can go in terms of the development of the whole film. Sutherland as Judge in the courtroom with Miranda literally came across as God judging us sinners on Judgement Day. Great movie everyone should see it and I hope Abigail Breslin is nominated for an Oscar for the performance that is truly captivating. Typical Courtroom drama with a true story that was never told this way.