Our Guys The TV Movie
The events of the Glen Ridge Rape were adapted into a TV Movie called Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge which premiered on ABC in 1999, and is occasionally shown on Lifetime. The film, directed by Guy Ferland, stars Ally Sheedy, Eric Stoltz, and Heather Matarazzo, and is an adaptation of Bernard Lefkowitz's book. The rape scene of the film was toned down due to the film being on broadcast television. Some of the things described in Lefkowitz's book were left out of the film, such as Kevin Scherzer's alleged habit of masturbating in class and the jocks putting Mary Ryan's cat in a microwave for a few seconds. The film renamed several characters and invented some new ones. The film also altered the time-line of events, moving the time of the rape being reported in the Fall (it is football season and the film opens on homecoming night), when in reality the rape was reported in the Spring. It also shows Amy (real name Mary) Ryan’s party occurring after the arrests, when this party really occurred two years prior to the rape.
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