Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story

1996

Action / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29%
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 321 321

sexual obsession court case stalker based on true story sexual harassment young woman

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Plot summary

Kerry Ellison, a vibrant young woman working as a senior accountant at the IRS, finds her life threatened by a disturbed, married co-worker who starts stalking her—following her, and writing her sexually tense notes. She makes it clear multiple times that she is not interested in him, but he is unstoppable. There's no one who can help her, so her only option is to file a sexual harassment suit against her employer and go to court, a decision that will surely cost her job. Based on a true story.

Director

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Allan Kroeker

Top cast

David Nerman Photo
David Nerman as Sam
Ray Paisley Photo
Ray Paisley as Bob
Karen Allen Photo
Karen Allen as Margaret
Patricia Gage Photo
Patricia Gage as Mrs. Ellison
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Steve D 4 / 10

The cast is strong at the story important

The cast is strong at the story important but the script plays like an after school special. It never goes beyond surface level.
Reviewed by tekwiz 10 / 10

Very Important and Entertaining Story

This story based on the famous Kerry Ellison sexual harassment legal case against the IRS is important to watch particularly by anybody who questions the authenticity of sexual harassment accusations in this era of the "me-too" movement.As is clear in Kerry Ellison's story, it is amazingly difficult for women living in our current culture of extreme misogyny, which contrary to the belief of some, has never been erased and in fact as I write this review is unfortunately making a strong comeback as a backlash in these strange and frightful times as men never wanted women to have any self-agency. Many refuse to believe women when they come forward to report harassment. They put them down with all sorts of questions such as "Why didn't she come forward sooner, why now? She must be making this up!" But as exemplified in Kerry Ellison's story, it can be extremely terrifying for women to come forward and they risk everything, their privacy, jobs, reputation, and even sanity. It takes some real courage not to mention money for lawyers and courts. The risks are staggering. This movie is a strong testament to how difficult this can be.This movie is also historically remarkable and significant as it shows how one woman who wouldn't quit even though all the odds were against her and she suffered great setbacks in the process, soldiered forward and while she didn't get what she hoped and actually lost her job and didn't have a chance to win against her extremely demented stalker and harasser, she managed to change the laws to consider harassment of women from a woman's perspective instead of only through men's eyes. These days courts use this standard to consider such cases instead of the old "any reasonable person's point of view" which is a defective standard as only women can know what it feels like to have a man impose himself on them, while men can only imagine this but not feel it as they aren't women.The main elements in the movie are all true to the actual events. Excellently played, very good acting, and very good writing, I thoroughly enjoyed watching and I highly recommend this movie. A true gem.From the movie credits:"Kerry Ellison ultimately settled her lawsuits against the IRS and Jack Gilcrest. As a result of those settlements her allegations were never tried in a court of law. Jack Gilcrest has denied Kerry's allegations.""The "Reasonable Woman" standard initiated by Kerry Ellison is a benchmark in sexual harassment law enabling thousands of women's cases to be tried from a woman's perspective.""The following story concerning a landmark decision in the field of sexual harassment is presented from Kerry Ellison's point of view and opinions on the events portrayed."
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