RBG

2018 "Hero. Icon. Dissenter."
7.6| 1h38m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 04 May 2018 Released
Producted By: Storyville Films
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: https://www.rbgmovie.com/
Synopsis

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

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Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Walter Mellon The film radiates from the core of her being - pinpoint-focused on human equality & devotion to her work. From that radiates an incredible life story of her long marriage & vignettes from family, colleagues, adversaries & friends. I anticipated a dry talking-heads documentary, and got so, so much more. Great film.
Hellmant 'RBG': Four Stars (Out of Five)A documentary about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The film was directed and produced by Betsy West and Julie Cohen. It's received nearly unanimous rave reviews from critics, and it's also a modest hit at the Box Office as well. I enjoyed it, and I also found it to be both educational and inspiring. The film is an examination of the life and career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (also known as the notorious RBG). The documentary goes all the way back to her birth in Brooklyn, and it stays with her up till the movie's release in 2018. The film studies her multiple decade run as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and it also examines her massive pop culture appeal too. Many others that Ginsburg has known, and worked with, are also interviewed in the movie as well. The film is definitely educational, for those who don't know much about the popular Supreme Court Justice. It's also very inspiring, to see someone so dedicated, and relentlessly committed to making the world a better place (Ruth of course fought for women's rights primarily). I found the film to be both motivational and inspiring. I also didn't know that much about her, prior to seeing the movie, so it was very informative for me as well.
Mike B Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a marvel. She has improved rights for women and worked for gender equality. On the Supreme Court she has disagreed with legislation that has whittled the power of the Voting Rights Act.Why is the U.S. Supreme Court dominated, except for Ruth Bader, by all these old men and conservative to boot. During the Roosevelt era the Supreme Court stopped a lot of progressive legislation.Anyway for now Ruth is there and there is hope. Who will Trump appoint? Another old desecrated right-winger no doubt.
LeonardHaid The US government since its inception has been a patriarchy of white men, essentially reflecting US culture. Cultures and the governments that represent them are so intertwined that when culture starts to evolve past its government, this creates an upheaval. Governments resist this because they have become complacent with the status quo, which works great for them anyway. And they have become disconnected with what is happening in the real world, so why change something when they think nothing's broke. RBG is a film about what happens when a country has a venerable Constitution which can be manipulated so that its staid government can be pushed along to evolve with the culture it represents, and about one woman who used this Constitution to bring change for the better. RBG, for me, is a feel-good-about-America film. It doesn't resort to propaganda or fall back on silly cliches. It doesn't espouse violence or even aggressive behavior. It shows that the core part of the US government - the US Constitution - is an honorable thing, and all it takes to maintain a high level of democracy is for brave, perseverant, and intelligent people to challenge that that is unconstitutional, even if those challenged are the highest people in the land. But it was Ruth Bader Ginsburg's amiability - besides her obvious position of influence as a lawyer, law professor, activist, and Supreme Court justice - that seemed to be what set her apart from other champions of justice. She didn't set out to slay the dragon so much as to make friends with it and cultivate it, and this was not an exploitation. It was genuine. She showed love to the dragon while cultivating it, and the dragon in turn evolved into a better dragon.The first thing Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced as a young law student on her road to becoming a Supreme Court justice was the white male patriarchal dragon. And as she moved up the professional ladder it only grew in size and power. It was gigantic and it was everywhere. But was it evil? No, Ruth realized, it was not. But it was domineering. It was in charge, and knew it, and loved it. It made the rules, and was very successful. And naturally the system it had set up benefited itself the most. But the dragon was pliable it turned out. It could be swayed. It could be roused into doing the right thing. It could change. But you had to respect it and be nice to it. You had to reason with it intelligently. Ms. Ginsburg is referred to in many descriptions as a warrior, but to repeat, she didn't go to war with the dragon so much as she befriended it, appealed to its goodness and intelligence, and reminded it over and over again of the words and meanings of those words of its true master - the US Constitution - and with this method she changed society for the better.