Sam Jackson Set For Rape: A Love Story Alongside Mario Bello & Abigail Breslin
Samuel L. Jackson has signed on to star in the drama, Rape: A Love Story.
Based on a searing, harrowing novella by Joyce Carol Oates, the movie – directed by Harold Becker – will tell the story of Teena MacGuire (Maria Bello), a young mother who is brutally gang-raped and left for dead, in an attack witnessed by her 12 year-old daughter (Abigail Breslin).
Jackson will play a cop who, appalled by Teena’s plight and a legal miscarriage of justice, takes the law into his own hands in an attempt to punish her attackers. The cop in the novella is considerably younger than Jackson, so it’ll be interesting to see what other changes will be made for the movie.
The provocative title, by the way, refers to the bond that Breslin’s Bethie forges with the cop in the aftermath of the rape.
The movie will be Becker’s first since Domestic Disturbance, way back in 2001. Before that, he’d made a career out of a series of decent, if largely unremarkable, thrillers, including Malice, Sea Of Love and City Hall. But it’s good to see him back behind the camera, particularly on material like this, that requires sensitivity and a director who knows what the hell they’re doing.
There was me thinking this was coming from the same amazing movie title factory that brought us..Wristcutters:A Love Story, after reading on it would seem not, oh well, still sounds like another staple Jackson tour de force so on the basis along i'll watch this space ... Read More
L: crimebusterofthesea
Crap title, great cast.
Hope this does well, Bello especially deserves to hve a bit of a hit.
ounds like she'll have it in the film..
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This could be the finest acted movie ever made and all people will be talking about in the title, really hope it goes, it's just childish attention grabbing......but the Daily Mail article could be a hoot ... Read More
