The read
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 71% of the 6,933 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes72%
Metacritic59/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
1,150 audience votes
Key crew
- Daniel StieplemanScreenplay
- Mimi LederDirector
- Mychael DannaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Felicity JonesRuth Bader Ginsburg
- Armie HammerMartin D. Ginsburg
- Justin TherouxMel Wulf
- Sam WaterstonErwin Griswold
- Kathy BatesDorothy Kenyon
- Cailee SpaenyJane C. Ginsburg
- Callum ShonikerJames Steven Ginsburg
- Jack ReynorJames H. Bozarth
- Stephen RootProfessor Brown
- Ronald GuttmanProfessor Gerald Gunther
- Chris MulkeyCharles Moritz
- Gary WerntzJudge William Edward Doyle
Stills
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Themes
1970sbiographybased on true storysupreme courtlawyerjusticeharvard law schoolwoman director1960scourtroom dramasupreme court justiceinspirational