Sam Jackson is On Board for ‘Rape’

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 2, 2009

Rape: A Love Story

Three questions have plagued me recently. One is what Sam Jackson would be doing before launching his 209-picture deal with Marvel. The second is what movie Abigail Breslin could be in that would be the exact opposite of Little Miss Sunshine. The third is incredibly personal, and I can’t believe you’d even ask me like that.

Luckily, two of the three questions were answers today as Variety is reporting that Samuel L. Jackson, Maria Bello, and Abigail Breslin are going to be working together on Rape: A Love Story which is probably the best sounding title possible with the word ‘rape’ in it. Other than, of course, No! The Rape Documentary.

The film is based on a novella by Joyce Carol Oates (seriously) in which a woman begins rebuilding her life after being brutally gang-raped – an attack witnessed by her young daughter. The attackers then obsessively stalk the woman while a policeman intervenes and tries to protect her. Judging by the characters and the casting, I’d say it’s an obvious guess that Jackson plays the raped woman, Bello plays the young daughter, and Breslin plays the sympathetic, honor-bound cop. Just a guess, though.

What do you think? Is there anyway to write up this story without being mildly inappropriate?


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  • Every punchline I came up with was grossly distasteful and actually illegal in California to put in print so... Yeah. This movie sounds... Like I won't be interested in watching it.
  • ummm.... rape is a touchy issue, and I'm sick of Hollywood exploiting rape and women. This is going to be so tasteless, pathetic and dumb.
  • Or...it could be a fantastic look at the realities of rape. Although the whole gang rape plot device is a bit over the top.
  • I hope Dakota Fanning is in it...
  • You ain't nothing but a hounddog.
  • A woman is brutally raped while her daughter watches, and then the woman is stalked while a cop tries to protect her. I don't see any potential for a 'love story' there, I just see an opportunity to walk away from a rape movie shellshocked, disgusted and insulted. Again.
  • There is not enough rape in movies today..
  • Whaler
    I've felt raped after watching a lot of the movies that have come out recently...
  • Judging the tone of a movie and whether or not its exploitative before there is even a trailer is pretty lame.
  • 790
    LOL on that post title......
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