This is about as good as a made-for-TV film can get and its true-life drama contains a bowstring-taut central performance from Gail O'Grady as the US Navy officer Lieutenant Paula Coughlin who rocked the American military in 1991 when she sued for sexual harassment. In a role that's a far cry from her later role as Donna Abandando in NYPD Blue, O'Grady is shocked and outraged when she is forced to endure a humiliating grope-and-grab ritual at a drunken party to the cheers, jeers and leers of male colleagues. There are echoes of The Accused here (and rather too many flashbacks to the key sequence), as Miss O'Grady confronts the authorities and finds herself up against a wall of chauvinism and misogyny. Cast against type as a thoroughly bad chap is Robert Urich, who turns in a splendid piece of acting.

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