Citizen Ruth
(1996)
★ 6.6 IMDb · 154 votes
Year: 1996
Runtime: 106 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Александр Пэйн
Cast: Лора Дерн, Свузи Кёрц, Кертвуд Смит, Мэри Кэй Плэйс, Келли Престон, М. К. Гейни, Кеннет Марс, David Graf, Kathleen Noone, Tippi Hedren
Plot
"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.
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 - and the situation escalates...