“Citizen Ruth” quotes
(1996)
Alexander Payne
directed this movie
in 1996
Title Citizen Ruth
Year 1996
Director Alexander Payne
Genre Drama, Comedy
Year 1996
Director Alexander Payne
Genre Drama, Comedy
Plot – Thirty-year-old Ruth Stoops is so ruined by drugs that she resorts to sniffing glue and paint and on top of that she is pregnant again. However, when a judge declares her incapable of carrying out parental duties, she is co-opted by Gail Stoney, wife of the president of an anti-abortion committee. Obviously, the pro-choice supporters intervene and poor Ruth becomes the reluctant center of a fierce controversy between opposing factions.
All actors – Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston, M.C. Gainey, Kenneth Mars, David Graf, Kathleen Noone, Tippi Hedren, Burt Reynolds, Lance Rome
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“I slept in a few dumpsters. Maybe I slept on some babies.”
“- Nurse: Let me just ask you something, Ruth. Have you ever really taken the time to think about what it means to have an abortion?
- Ruth Stoops: It means that I don't have to go to jail and it means I don't have to have another baby and it means that I can start getting my life together ...
- Nurse: Don't you think that's all just a little...” (continue)(continue reading)“I don't wanna go back to jail again. Least not for more than a week or two.”
“- Rachel: It is always women like you who are most victimized by anti-choice: indigent women, third-world women, women of color.
- Ruth Stoops: I'm not a colored woman!”
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