Strip hoax movie opens in limited release Friday

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -

A controversial movie based on the highly publicized strip search hoax in Bullitt County opens in limited release Friday.

A prank phone call at a Bullitt County McDonald's in 2004 led to an 18-year-old employee being strip searched at the restaurant.

Donna Summers was the assistant manager of a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington when she received a phone call from a man claiming he was a police officer. The man told Summers one of her employees stole a customer's purse. For more than three hours, the employee, Louise Ogborn, was strip-searched and forced to perform sexual acts on her manager's fiance.

Investigators said by the time Ogborn became a victim of the hoax, 70 other fast food restaurants in 32 different states had already been targeted by similar calls.

Police determined the call came from a pay phone in Florida and later arrested David Stewart. He was charged with impersonating a police office and solicitation of sodomy. A jury acquitted him of those charges.

The manager's fiancé, Walter Nix, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years prison for sex abuse.

The hoax prompted Ogborn to sue McDonald's. A jury awarded her $ 6 million, but the case was later settled for an undisclosed amount.

The case was also featured on "20-20" and fictionalized in an episode of "Law and Order."

"Compliance" originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and features a fictional restaurant in Ohio town, but the young character in the movie named Becky endures much of the same treatment Ogborn went through in real life.

Other media outlets said many viewers at the original showing were so disturbed they walked out.

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