In her first Oscar-winning role, Jonathan Kaplan's The Accused, Jodie Foster plays Sarah Tobias, a fast-food waitress (traditional female profession), who is gang-raped in a roadside bar (also conventional stereotype). However, in the course of the film, she transforms from a good-time, hard-drinking girl to a woman fighting (with the assistance of a female attorney, played by Kelly McGillis) for the decency and self-esteem she never had.