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Ruth Stoops, the heroine of "Citizen Ruth," gets an even clearer signal: When the arresting cops already know your name, that's a real tip-off you have a problem. Pitiful, bedraggled Ruth ( Laura Dern) is a forlorn specimen of hopelessness with more than a dozen arrests for "illegal inhalation." She has just been thrown out by her boyfriend (of ...
Citizen Ruth, 1996. I’ve enjoyed every Alexander Payne film. However, this was the first time that I saw a writer/directors very first work after seeing all of his other movies that followed. A dark, campy satire about a chemical sniffing junkie who gets pregnant and then watches the pro-lifers and pro-choicers bid for her hazy decision.
2 de dic. de 2021 · Citizen Ruth is about a paint-huffing vagrant who has been arrested 16 times and given birth to four children, all of whom were seized by the state. She possesses a reckless distaste for adult ...
Citizen Ruth. Meet Ruth Stoops. She's homeless, dumb as a cinder block and loves to get high huffing spray paint. Life would be dandy if it weren't for one tiny problem - she's gotten herself knocked up for the umpteenth time and it seems life everybody's got an opinion about what she should do - from angry judge to God-fearing Baby-Savers to ...
Overview. "Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus. Alexander Payne. Director, Screenplay.
In this satirical look at a controversial issue, unfit mother of four Ruth Stoops discovers while in jail that she's pregnant again. The judge charges her with endangering the fetus, but tells her he'll reduce the charges if she has an abortion. When word of this gets out, Ruth's caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between anti-abortion and ...
Citizen Ruth película dirigida por Alexander Payne y protagonizada por Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz y Kurtwood Smith. Año: 1996. Slogan: La vida, la libertad, el dinero y la búsqueda de la felicidad. Ella tiene que tenerlo. Sinopsis: Una mujer irresponsable, drogadicta y recién embarazada se encuentra en medio de un debate sobre el aborto cuando ambas partes intentan convencerla de que adopte ...
