Though RUBY is bound to suffer in comparison to Oliver Stone's JFK in terms of sheer cinematic pizzazz, this largely fictionalized historical drama is nevertheless a quietly engrossing contribution to the Kennedy assassination myth. In its dreamy, elegiac mixing of history and fiction,
RUBY is closer in tone to E.L. Doctorow's works than to the muckraking tabloid antics of Stone's epic.
The film centers on Jack Ruby (Danny Aiello), the shadowy Dallas strip-club owner who emerged from obscurity just long enough to murder alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (Willie Garson)--an image captured on nationwide television and indelibly stamped in our collective m...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
110 mins