The story they present is a great story...full of romance, intrigue, lust, danger, scenery...but aside from the names and places bears little to the story of Ruth and Boaz found in the Bible. It would not be so bad if they just stick to filling in the missing pieces. But...they changed what the Bible says happened. All the events that tale place in Moab are in the realm of fine, theatrical license. The biggest miss in the rest of the film is the interaction with Tob--the nearest kinsman. In the Bible, there is not a word that he wanted Ruth. And, there is not a word about love-talk between Ruth and Boaz when she goes to him on the threshing floor. They would've done well to keep the dialogue in the book of Ruth. Read the book of Ruth for yourself and see. This is like another so-called "based on the Bible" movie that came out in around 2014: Noah's Ark. Read the real story of those events in Genesis.
Review of The Story of Ruth
