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\u2018\u201dKiss the Girls\u2019 centers on male sexual violence and the torture of women\u2019s bodies,\u201d Judd wrote in her caption. \u201cAt the time, we often framed stories like this around female resilience\u2014the strength of surviving. Many people still say that\u2019s what the film means to them. But I\u2019ve found myself asking a different question: Why is sexual terror against women something we package as entertainment? Why is it profitable?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKiss the Girls\u201d was adapted from James Patterson<\/a>\u2019s 1995 novel of the same name and was directed by Gary Fleder<\/a>. Morgan Freeman<\/a> starred as forensic psychologist Alex Cross<\/a>, while Judd played a doctor and kickboxer who…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ashley Judd is reconsidering one of her earliest box office hits. In a recent Instagram video post, Judd noted how her relationship with 1997\u2019s \u201cKiss the Girls\u201d has \u201cevolved\u201d over the years due to the film\u2019s depiction of violence against women. \u2018\u201dKiss the Girls\u2019 centers on male sexual violence and the torture of women\u2019s bodies,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2320580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2320579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ashley-Judd-Calls-Out-Her-1997-Movie-\u2018Kiss-the-Girls.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320581,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320579\/revisions\/2320581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2320580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}