The Brave One Movie

Jodie FOSTER is perfectly aware that in reality women don't kill strangers. "They kill their husbands and their children and themselves," said the 44-year-old actress matter-of-factly. "That's how women handle rage and abuse. Men are able to push outwards and are able to say, 'I'm hurt so there must be something wrong with you.' "Let's say there is one that is," she continued. A woman who does expel her anger outwards, that is. And let's say she's played by the two-time Oscar winner.

In "The Brave One," two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster dons her action persona and plays a radio host turned vigilante who blows away a would-be wife beater, a set of remorseless gangbangers, a pimp and a white-collar psychopath.

This time it was the woman with a gun who took control. The revenge thriller "The Brave One," starring Jodie Foster as a vigilante killer on the streets of New York, knocked the Russell Crowe western "3:10 to Yuma" out of first place at the box office over the weekend, grossing an estimated $14 million in the United States and Canada. "Women are really responding to the movie even though it has its violent moments," said Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution at Warner Bros.