Critical and Scholarly Reaction
The film was a critical success, garnering a 95% fresh rating in review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Of the two trials in the film, Roger Ebert finds that the lesson of the "second trial may be the most important message this movie has to offer, " that "for some men, the movie will reveal a truth that most women already know, " of the damage caused by verbal sexual harassment.
Some educators worry that this "educationally profitable" film's R rating "will receive V ratings and be subject to at least a presumption against curricular use in many public schools. "
The film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.
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