Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge

1999

Action / Crime / Drama

2
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 738 738

Plot summary

In 1989, a group of well-known high school athletes in Glen Ridge, New Jersey were accused of the gang rape of a teen girl. When the town rallies to protect their stars, a detective and the prosecutor have to unravel the cover-up by the school board and the police.

Director

Guy Ferland Photo
Guy Ferland

Top cast

Gwynyth Walsh Photo
Gwynyth Walsh as Mrs. Archer
Doron Bell Photo
Doron Bell as Carl Brewer
Carly Pope Photo
Carly Pope as Mari Ferraez
Stephen E. Miller Photo
Stephen E. Miller as Mr. Jack Scherzer
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870.1 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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29.97 fps
1 hr 34 min
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1.58 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
29.97 fps
1 hr 34 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by karenthomas61

You will remember this film long after the credits roll

Do not be daunted by the sensational nature of the crime, depicted in this film. The director did not go for shock value. This film is sensitive and poignant despite the grotesque nature of the crime.This is not your typical made for TV movie. For Heather Matarazzo's performance alone, put this film on your "must see" list. Since the producers used the real names of several perpetrators, I feel confident that the script must be very accurate. (Some of the guilty were shielded from public exposure due to their status as minors.) Most "based on a true story" movies take great liberties with facts, characters and events to make a more dramatic or cohesive film and I tend to dismiss them as entertainment, not documentary.If you watch this film, I think you will be haunted by the protagonist long after the final credits.
Reviewed by fredrikgunerius 7 / 10

A nuanced tale of boundary-crossing and bad decisions

This is a classically constructed based-on-true-events TV-movie from the 1990s, with all that this entails, but it's also fairly well-acted, fairly well-balanced and undoubtedly interesting in its discussions on where to draw the line regarding victims and perpetrators in cases of (alleged) sexual abuse between teenagers. Our Guys recognizes the difficulties involved when mental disability, budding sexuality and peer pressure is mixed into a hotchpotch of boundary-crossing and bad decisions. There are no winners in this story, despite what the parents of these kids so desperately want to cling onto. A committed performance by Ally Sheedy, a sensitive one by Eric Stoltz, and a highly impressive one by Heather Matarazzo as the girl elevates this effective drama.
Reviewed by cstotlar-1 5 / 10

Rigged and Artificial

This movie had every good intention and I applaud its search for justice. Heather Matarazzo was phenomenal in her role and portrayed a complex girl's feelings and their ambiguities with great skill and compassion. My feelings are rather strongly pro keeping sports in line with the academic pursuits of others. In too many high schools the athletic departments enjoy unchecked authority; the resultant misbehavior of their students is often allowed - sometimes even encouraged - to a ridiculous extent. And yes, in too many cases the "student" athletes get preferential treatment from adults behaving more like children than their charges. The other characters in the film, among the students, were cardboard if even that and the bias so loaded against them on screen as to cause the film to lose a valuable part of its creditability. They weren't just horrid people in every way but... The film was never intended to be a balanced portrayal of some people who lost all ideas of balance but in so vilifying them throughout, the film itself becomes grotesquely unbalanced. It served its purpose, I suppose, but it really wasn't a good film at all.Curtis Stotlar
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