Act of Violence #9

"The shooting death of 22-year-old Eve Carson, which police called a random act of violence, stunned the community this month; her body was found in a street about a mile from campus. Two people with a history of crime have been charged with murdering the popular student leader."

"Divorced career woman's life changes when she is beaten and robbed by a street gang. Liz plays a TV reporter who is a tad bit on the liberal side. She ruffles a few feathers with her point of view about rich women wearing fur coats asking to be mugged. Then she herself is mugged and what a difference a day makes. Overnight we see her transformed into a paranoid,conservative crime victim who is left mentally and physically scarred."

"This movie is often confused with her 1974 movie "A Case of Abuse". This is 1979, and instead of being abused she gets the stuffing beaten out of her during a violent mugging. Liz plays a TV reporter who is a tad bit on the liberal side. She ruffles a few feathers with her point of view about rich women wearing fur coats asking to be mugged. Then she herself is mugged and what a difference a day makes. Overnight we see her transformed into a paranoid, conservative crime victim who is left mentally and physically scarred. She even goes on the news with a rambling editorial about crime that annoys her station and viewers even more than the previous pieces about sympathy for criminal offenders."