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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 30030
Released: October 4, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
On August 22, 1992, 400 Federal agents armed with rifles, choppers and tanks, surrounded the Ruby Ridge, Idaho, cabin of White Supremacist Randy Weaver (Randy Quaid, Independence Day). When Weaver resists a Federal arrest warrant, the U.S. Government declared war on the separatist and his family. Following an 11-day standoff that left his wife (Laura Dern, Wild at Heart) and son (Bradley Pierce, Jumanji) dead, Weaver surrendered and inexplicably was brought to trial on trumped-up murder and conspiracy charges, in this Emmy© nominated docudrama based on the real-life events that shocked a nation. Co-starring Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man) and Diane Ladd (TV's Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital).
The Siege at Ruby Ridge Reviews:
Ruby Ridge 
2009-09-30 - I would like to thank the seller for accomodating an issue with shipping and their prompt service. Now I will review the product.
Horribly written movie that went to great lengths to wrongly defame Randy Weaver. Randy Quaid should be ashamed of himself. Anyone who knows what it takes to become a Special Forces Green Beret knows that the way Quaid portrayed Weaver as a cowardly nutjob was basically a character assasination and far from the truth. There were also many other untruths and outright falsehoods in the movie which did not even parallel the book it was adapted from, a book which although seems at most times to take great pains to get to the facts, still engages in wronging Weavers character without base. I would not recommend this movie to anyone who thinks it might be a documantary or that it contains all the facts. In some cases it is factual, but you need to have researched the story in order to be discerning of the content. The movie does illustrate the Feds murder of Randys innocent wife and son. Just for that portion it is worth watching, however take the portrayal of the family as not accurate.
Government oversteps their bounds ! 
2009-07-06 - An excellent documentation of how our government is out of control. You don't kill people because of their beliefs, at least not in America. Or do you ? Have we gotten that far away from the constitution ? Josie
A Tragic True Story 
2009-03-30 - This extremely well done 2-part television mini-series ostensibly relates the true facts about the tragic incident that occurred in August of 1992 when Federal agents, armed with rifles, choppers and tanks, surrounded the Ruby Ridge, Idaho, cabin of White Supremacist Randy Weaver, who had resisted a Federal arrest warrant.
Following an 11-day stand-off that brought nationwide attention, both Weaver's wife and 14-year-old son were dead. Weaver, ultimately, surrendered, was tried on trumped-up murder and conspiracy charge and acquitted.
Roger Young directed the film, which stars Randy Quaid as Weaver, Laura Dern as his wife and Kristen Dunst as their oldest daughter. Also in the cast are Diane Ladd, Bob Gunton and Joe Don Baker.
The problem with this docudrama is that there is nobody in the story that you really want to root for. Yes, the Government abused their power in going after the Weavers with such deadly force. The deaths were certainly unnecessary; caused by some trigger-happy agents.
On the other hand, the Weavers were, indeed, White Supremacists who followed Nazi doctrines. It is terrible that their family was destroyed and one can certainly grieve for them, but didn't they bring what happened upon themselves?
© Michael B. Druxman
Good movie
2009-02-12 - This is a good movie, a little vague in some areas but overall well done.
Interesting take on what the goverment does to its own people.
2007-06-08 - It is absolutely amazing how the Clinton administration killed so many innocent people and got away with it. (Including Waco and the Republic of Texans) If you watch Harry's War, a movie that is classified as comedy that was made a few years before Ruby Ridge, it is scary that Ruby Ridge and Waco Massacre were exactly carried out like this comedy. People complain about Iraq and the killing of innocent people and we do it right here in the good old USA! If they want to go after true cults how about the Children of God, The Mormons, The Jehovah's Witness and especially the Muslims.
