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Citizen Ruth
- Director: Alexander Payne
- Writer: Alexander Payne; Jim Taylor
- Producer: Cathy Konrad; Andrew Stone
CGiii Comment
There is a massive point trying to be made...but, it gets lost in nonsensical comedy.
If this were a drama - it had the potential to be something really powerful.
Alas - it follows the easy, cheap and doomed route.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Ruth Stoops is a poor indigent drug-user (a huffer - inhaling glue and paint for a high) whose down and out existence is complicated once more by becoming pregnant (she has had and lost four children already). When a judge orders that she gets an abortion or face a felony charge, she is befriended by Gail Stoney, a pro-lifer whose husband is president of the local "Babysavers" group. Suddenly Ruth is thrust into the middle of the pro-choice/pro-life struggle, with each side wanting her to take their side as a "message" to others...
Cast & Characters
Laura Dern as Ruth Stoops;
Swoosie Kurtz as Diane Siegler;
Kurtwood Smith as Norm Stoney;
Mary Kay Place as Gail Stoney;
Kelly Preston as Rachel;
M.C. Gainey as Harlan;
Kenneth Mars as Dr. Charlie Rollins;
David Graf as Judge Richter;
Kathleen Noone as Nurse Pat;
Tippi Hedren as Jessica Weiss