Citizen Ruth
(1996)
Anybody got another nominee for "best abortion comedy ever"?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Alexander Payne really doesn't like people much. Which may be why I own all of his features so far--but given that that's just four in a dozen years now, that's not much of an accomplishment.
The beauty of this, his first, is that my team is depicted as just as ugly and conniving as the antichoicers, and yet there's scarcely a moment that strikes me as false--a testament to Payne, writing partner Jim Taylor, and the entire cast, from Laura Dern, in what may be the most courageous role in a career hardly marked by timidity, to how'd-the-first-time-filmmaker-get-'em Burt Reynolds, Tippi Hedren, and Diane Ladd.
But while we're on the subject of choice, did you catch the recent Planned Parenthood poll that showed that in 18 battleground states almost a quarter of pro-choice women voters believe John McCain to be pro-choice? If you think that sucks rocks as much as I do, you might want to make sure people you know know the truth.
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