![]() Ruth transfers to Columbia Law School for her final third year, but the Harvard Dean refuses to let her graduate from there, even though he’s let a couple men do it when they had to transfer.Īfter graduation in 1959, Ruth can’t find a firm willing to hire a woman, even though she’s top of her class. When Marty graduates, he gets a job as a tax attorney in New York City. While Marty’s recovering, Ruth helps him with his studies as well as her own. The doctor only gives Marty a 5% chance of survival, but the new treatment of surgery and radiation proves successful. Ruth proves to be one of the smartest people in her class, but tragedy strikes the family when Marty (played by Armie Hammer) is diagnosed with testicular cancer. Meanwhile, Ruth’s husband, Marty, is one year ahead of her at Harvard, and they have a 14-month-old baby, Jane. Though he supported the inclusion of women at the school, the Dean is a bit condescending toward the women. Starring Felicity Jones as Ruth Ginsburg, the movie opens with Ruth starting Harvard Law School in 1956, only one of nine women in her class. ON THE BASIS OF SEX is better structured and more compelling than other recent leftist movies, but the feminist movie does change some facts for dramatic purposes and ultimately relies too heavily on emotional left-leaning appeals to make its case for radical social change. ![]() ![]() ON THE BASIS OF SEX is a biographical drama of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her first two sex discrimination cases in 19, which led to major legal and social changes, and the role her family life played in those efforts. ![]()
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