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Original Title
Ruth & Alex- Director: Richard Loncraine
- Writer: Charlie Peters; Jill Ciment
- Producer: Curtis Burch; Gary Ellis
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Ever watched a film that goes absolutely nowhere...
You would feel cheated...right?
Well, this is about buying and selling an apartment...only, no apartment is bought or sold.
There's a subplot about a little poorly dog and a couple of lesbians are thrown in for a couple of minutes. Besides those 'highlights' - nothing actually happens.
What a dismal bore of a film.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related issues when they plan to move away.
This drama follows a senior couple over a chaotic weekend, during which they debate selling the Brooklyn apartment they’ve shared for 40 years. A lesbian couple visits during the open house and makes an offer that the couple considers after reading a letter detailing the women’s’ struggles to adopt over the last six years. The elder couple recognizes similarities between what the women have gone through and their own experience getting married decades ago as an interracial couple. Though the women only had two minutes of screen time, it was nevertheless a positive moment of inclusion.
"A positive moment of inclusion" - WHAT?!?! A fleeting stereotype...aggressively stating: Don't touch the touch! Yeah...that's positive.
Cast & Characters
Morgan Freeman as Alex Carver;
Carrie Preston as Miriam Carswell;
Diane Keaton as Ruth Carver;
Claire van der Boom as Young Ruth;
Cynthia Nixon as Lily Portman;
Alysia Reiner as Blue Leggings;
Hannah Dunne as Debbie;
Sterling Jerins as Zoe;
Miriam Shor as Cool Lady;
Violet Krumbein as 'Tomatoes' Woman;
Josh Pais as Jackson;
Maddie Corman as Friendly Lady;
Liza J. Bennett as Mrs. Vincent;
Alanna Blair as Young Wife;
Grace Rex as Erica