Raw Deal:A Question of Consent

When a University of Florida fraternity party erupts into a rape scandal captured on videotape, a shocking investigation exposes the volatile collision of sex, power, media, and consent in modern America.

Year — 2001▶ Watch trailer

§ Synopsis

After a fraternity party at the University of Florida ends with a rape accusation, the case explodes into national controversy when authorities arrest the accuser instead — despite the existence of a videotape that appears to contradict the official story. As media attention intensifies, prosecutors, activists, students, and the public clash over what really happened inside the fraternity house that night. Through shocking footage and firsthand accounts from those closest to the case, the film exposes the uneasy intersection of sex, power, media spectacle, and institutional self-protection. What emerges is a disturbing portrait of how truth can be shaped, manipulated, and weaponized in the middle of America's culture wars over consent.

§ TrailerRaw Deal: A Question of Consent

§ Critics Say4 clips

Disturbing, utterly absorbing… don't be surprised to find yourself changing your mind again and again, about whom to believe.
The Miami Herald
A bidding war erupted yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival as studios scrambled to buy a documentary containing shocking footage of frat-house sex, including an alleged rape.
New York Post
It's the ultra-explicit reality show you'll never see on TV — a shockumentary that forever shatters the boundaries of what a theatrical feature can, should, and will depict.
Entertainment Weekly
A triumph of objective reporting
The Scotsman★★★★
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