Ask Dr. Ruth - Movie Review
By Monica Sullivan
Ask Dr. Ruth is a strange hybrid of a movie, rather like Dr. Ruth herself. It has an intriguing introduction: an animated sequence that suggested what young Ruth’s life was like as a child and an adolescent. There is also footage of the town where she grew up before the Nazis took over and decimated her family. Ruth was among a group of children who escaped the fate of their families. The rest of the movie shows how Ruth eventually found true love, plus fame and fortune and all the rest of that stuff as a sex therapist. Dr. Ruth fans will love it, others will be indifferent to it. Anne Frank fans will dig in for their umpteenth reading of “The Diary of a Young Girl”. One of the members of Movie Magazine met Dr. Ruth and thought she was weird. That comes through in this documentary. You can see it in the reactions of talk show hosts and their guests.
Movie Magazine International
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