1996 · comedy · satire · drama
Citizen Ruth
Directed by Alexander Payne1h 44m1996
"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.
Our read: Citizen Ruth (1996) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · satire · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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- funny
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