Felicity Jones
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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On the Basis of Sex. The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
- (39K)
- Biography, Drama
- Mimi Leder
- 2019-01-11
On the Basis of Sex is a 2018 American biographical legal drama film based on the life and early cases of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the second woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
A trailblazing young Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes up a case of sex-based discrimination in an attempt to shatter the status quo. Watch trailers & learn more.
On the Basis of Sex is nowhere near as groundbreaking as its real-life subject, but her extraordinary life makes a solid case for itself as an inspirational, well-acted biopic. Read...
- (270)
- Mimi Leder
- PG-13
- Felicity Jones
- Fact: Ginsburg Graduated from Columbia After Transferring from Harvard
- Fact: Martin Ginsburg Cooked Dinner For The Family
- Partially Fact: Ginsburg’s First Big Case Was A Tax Case
- Fact: Ginsburg Was Childhood Friends with ACLU Legal Director Melvin Wulf
- Fact: Moritz Led to Ginsburg’s Continued Work with The ACLU
After Martin Ginsburg graduated from Harvard Law School in 1958, Ruth still had one year left. But Martin was offered a job in New York City that he couldn’t pass up. Ruth decided that she needed to be in New York with him and their young daughter and couldn’t stay in Boston to complete her degree. But the Dean of Harvard Law School, played by Sam ...
The picture the movie paints of the Ginsburgs’ egalitarian marriage is true to the life they led. Martin, who died in 2010, loved to cook dinner for the family and supported his wife in all of her professional pursuits—an arrangement that was not particularly common for that time. Ginsburg has said that when she met Martin at Cornell, where they bo...
On the Basis of Sex suggests that the case the movie follows is Ginsburg’s first. And although Moritz v. Commissionerdefinitely was the first well-known case Ginsburg tried, it wasn’t her first. What is true, as Ginsburg told Totenberg, is the movie’s depiction of how she came to discover this case. “I don’t read tax cases,” Ruth tells Marty in the...
In the movie, Ruth’s childhood friendship with the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Melvin Wulf (played by Justin Theroux), is tantamount to her success in Moritz. This is true. The two attended a Jewish summer camp together, and when Ginsburg told her friend about the case she and Martin had found, he agreed that the AC...
After winning Moritz, Ginsburg co-founded the Women’s Right’s Project at the ACLU in 1972, where she continued the fight to promote gender equality. Without Ginsburg’s work eradicating the laws that discriminate on the basis of sex, the country may not look how it does today: a country which, in spite of its problems, does have very few such laws t...
- Rachel E. Greenspan
Dec 20, 2018 · On the Basis of Sex. The university’s victory song extols the triumph of the Harvard men, as a sea of dark suits and wingtip shoes walk up the law school’s steps. There is one turquoise dress, one pair of stockings with seams down the back.
Woot! Felicity Jones stars as a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who brings a groundbreaking case to the U.S. Court of Appeals that overturns a century of gender discrimination.
