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Monday, February 06, 2012
Courts - "McDonald's strip-search hoax turned into movie without victim's knowledge"
Recall this ILB entry from March 27, 2010 headed "Kentucky Appeals court upholds $6.1 million strip-search verdict against McDonald's."
Saturday, the same reporter, Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal, reported in a long story that began:
The perverse tale of blind obedience to authority first unfolded eight years ago in a McDonald’s restaurant in Mount Washington, Ky., just south of Louisville, when an 18-year-old employee was subjected to a humiliating strip search orchestrated by a prank caller pretending to be a cop.Now it may be coming to a theater near you.
“Compliance,” a movie based on the McDonald’s strip-search hoax case, premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah and has been acquired by a major distributor, which expects to release it this summer.
Dozens of film-goers walked out of the debut and hecklers later screamed at director Craig Zobel that his 90-minute film was exploitative and misogynistic.
“Rape is not entertainment,” one of them yelled at a question-and-answer session with the director.
But critics generally have raved about the movie, which includes scenes with nudity and degradation. * * *
Louisville lawyer Ann Oldfather, who represented the victim, Louise Ogborn, said her former client didn’t know about the movie until she was contacted last week by a reporter.
Oldfather said the director had a moral obligation to approach Ogborn before making the film.
“Anybody who wanted to be responsible in telling this story should have made an effort to talk to the person who went through it,” Oldfather said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 6, 2012 09:55 AM
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