Focuses on the inner life of one sensitive young woman as she ponders the meaning of love, loneliness, fear, intimacy and independence.
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08/20/02
Ruby in Paradise (1993)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:14
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A coming-of-age story about a young woman who flees her Tennessee home to start anew in a small tourist town in Florida. Once there, she finds a job, an apartment and a boyfriend, but her newly... [More]
Starring: Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Allison Dean
Director: Victor Nunez
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Judd is a most appealing performer with great screen presence. Here is your chance to see a genuine rising star in the early stages of her career.
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Nunez's best film to date--The nominal plot is less important than the sharp observation of how a young woman in crisis (Ashley Judd at the top of her form) deals with life's inevitable frustrations until she reaches inner quietness.
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Top CriticA great film about a woman running from her life and inadvertantly finding it.
02/26/03
Judd shines like the movie star she was destined to become.
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