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"Miranda's Victim" is a 2023 movie starring Abigail Breslin. The film follows Patricia "Trish" Weir, an 18-year old girl in 1963, who is kidnapped and raped by a man named Ernie Miranda, and chronicles the creation of the Miranda rights.

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"Miranda's Victim" is a 2023 movie starring Abigail Breslin.Creator/AbigailBreslin. The film follows Patricia "Trish" Weir, an 18-year old girl in 1963, who is kidnapped and raped by a man named Ernie Miranda, and chronicles the creation of the Miranda rights.
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* Standard50sFather: Trish's husband Charles can be controlling at times, is disappointed when Trish gives birth to a girl and when he thinks Trish was cheating on him, he roughly grabs her.
* StrawMisogynist: Charles can be verbally abusive around Trish, and after he finds out she was raped, he worries what this would mean for their family's reputation. He only changes his mind when the detectives show him a list of Miranda's victims, and tell him that Trish was the only one willing to speak up.

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* Standard50sFather: Trish's husband Charles can be controlling at times, is disappointed when Trish gives birth to a girl and when he thinks Trish was cheating on him, he roughly grabs her. \n The epilogue states that he and Trish divorced in the 1980s.
* StrawMisogynist: Charles can be verbally abusive around Trish, and after he finds out she was raped, he worries what this would mean for their family's reputation. He only changes his mind when the detectives show him a list of Miranda's victims, and tell him that Trish was the only one willing to speak up.
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* JerkassRealization: Flynn after he sees that his outburst at court hurt Trish.
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* ItsNotPersonal: Moore tries to get Flynn to forego defending Miranda, but Flynn doesn't care what Miranda did, or if he's even guilty; it's just a job to him, and who would be stupid enough to give up an opportunity to go before the Supreme Court?
* JerkassHasAPoint: While a FemaleMisogynist, Trish's mother has a point in warning her daughter that her husband will not take the fact she wasn't a virgin lightly; when he finds out Trish was raped, he outright says that if he'd known that, he wouldn't have married her.

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* ItsNotPersonal: JerkassHasAPoint: While a FemaleMisogynist, Trish's mother is proven to have a point in warning her daughter that her husband will not take the fact she wasn't a virgin lightly; years later, when he finds out Trish was raped, he outright says that if he'd known that, he wouldn't have married her.
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Moore tries to get Flynn to forego defending Miranda, but Flynn doesn't care what Miranda did, or if he's even guilty; it's just a job to him, and who would be stupid enough to give up an opportunity to go before the Supreme Court?
* JerkassHasAPoint: While a FemaleMisogynist, Trish's mother has a point in warning her daughter that her husband will not take the fact she wasn't a virgin lightly; when he finds out Trish was raped, he outright says that if he'd known that, he wouldn't have married her.
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* BlatantLies: Ernie Miranda testifies that what he and Trish had was wholly consensual, and keeps insisting to his lawyer that the police threatened him into confessing.



* RapeAsDrama: Trish is raped on her way home from work, and the movie takes

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* ItsNotPersonal: Moore tries to get Flynn to forego defending Miranda, but Flynn doesn't care what Miranda did, or if he's even guilty; it's just a job to him, and who would be stupid enough to give up an opportunity to go before the Supreme Court?
* JerkassHasAPoint: While a FemaleMisogynist, Trish's mother has a point in warning her daughter that her husband will not take the fact she wasn't a virgin lightly; when he finds out Trish was raped, he outright says that if he'd known that, he wouldn't have married her.
* RapeAsDrama: Trish is raped on her way home from work, and the movie takes follows her struggles.
* SimpleCountryLawyer: Miranda's ACLU lawyer, Flynn, is this. He often uses comedy to get the jury on his side.


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* StrawMisogynist: Charles can be verbally abusive around Trish, and after he finds out she was raped, he worries what this would mean for their family's reputation. He only changes his mind when the detectives show him a list of Miranda's victims, and tell him that Trish was the only one willing to speak up.

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"Miranda's Victim" is a 2023 movie starring Abigail Breslin. The film follows Patricia "Trish" Weir, an 18-year old girl in 1963, who is kidnapped and raped by a man named Ernie Miranda, and chronicles the

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"Miranda's Victim" is a 2023 movie starring Abigail Breslin. The film follows Patricia "Trish" Weir, an 18-year old girl in 1963, who is kidnapped and raped by a man named Ernie Miranda, and chronicles the creation of the Miranda rights.


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* RapeAsDrama: Trish is raped on her way home from work, and the movie takes
* Standard50sFather: Trish's husband Charles can be controlling at times, is disappointed when Trish gives birth to a girl and when he thinks Trish was cheating on him, he roughly grabs her.
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"Miranda's Victim" is a 2023 movie starring Abigail Breslin. The film follows Patricia "Trish" Weir, an 18-year old girl in 1963, who is kidnapped and raped by a man named Ernie Miranda, and chronicles the
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* The60s: The film takes place in the 60s, and follows some of the same virtues of the time: Trish's family is at first afraid to go to the police because she won't be believed, and many girls in her position refuse to admit they were raped, out of fear of seeming like "damaged goods."
* ConsummationCounterfeit: On Trish's wedding day, her mother sharpens one of her nails, and tells her to prick herself during her wedding night, in case her husband decides to check.
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