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Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
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.
Young wife, mother and lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg battles the U.S. Supreme Court for gender equality and women's rights. She works with the American Civil Liberties Union to argue cases on behalf...
- Mimi Leder
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a struggling attorney and new mother who faces adversity and numerous obstacles in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a groundbreaking tax case with her...
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- 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
Jan 12, 2019 · Directed by Mimi Leder, On the Basis of Sex follows the origin story of Bader Ginsburg, from becoming one of the first female students admitted into Harvard Law School and fighting landmark...
Alexandra Petrachuk as Burton. Raphael Ferland as Kid. Jesse Gomola as Male Classmate #2. Michael Garvey as Attorney (uncredited) On the Basis of Sex (2018) The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights and what she had to overcome in order to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
