Blog: ‘On the Basis of Sex,’ ‘A Private War’ and other films put the power in women’s hands

The movie culminates in a 1971 court case in which Ginsburg and her husband, Martin (Armie Hammer), successfully argue that statutes discriminating on the basis of sex are unconstitutional. Leder says, “I like to call this movie an origins story about a superhero, but really, it’s a story about a woman who made change happen. Ruth was smarter than anybody, she didn’t let anything stand in her way, and her husband Marty was incredible. Their marriage was an equal partnership and in that sense a metaphor for the film.”