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This film is produced by Cathy Konrad.
Join Film Streams as we welcome Omaha's own Oscar®-winning director Alexander Payne for an audience Q&A following a screening of his newly restored film Citizen Ruth to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
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Film Information
When it debuted at Sundance in early 1996, Alexander Payne’s debut instantly announced a striking new voice to American cinema. With a fantastic performance from Laura Dern and sharp turns from Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Tippi Hedren, Mary Kay Place, and Burt Reynolds (as a fire-and-brimstone preacher), the film skewers political extremism with dark wit and piercing irony.
Unfit mother of four Ruth Stoops (Dern) 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 abortion rights activists who want to use Ruth to get their messages across.
Reviews
"At a time when almost every film has a “market” in mind, here is a movie with a little something to offend anyone who has a strong opinion on abortion." – Roger Ebert
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