Norma Rae (1979)

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7.3	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Martin Ritt

Starring (View all)

Sally Field
Norma Rae

Beau Bridges
Sonny

Ron Leibman
Reuben

Pat Hingle
Vernon

Barbara Baxley
Leona

Gail Strickland
Bonnie Mae

Morgan Paull
Wayne Billings

John Calvin
Ellis Harper

Written by

Irving Ravetch
(screenplay) and

Harriet Frank Jr.
(screenplay)

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2 years, 12 months ago at Aug 1 22:35

fernando

(OK) Good ol Ritt, hinet with his characters, long introduction to them, suspended sucsess and love, nosn spectacular naturalism...

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Description: NORMA RAE is a thrilling drama about factory workers in the South who are fed up with their dangerous, unhealthy working conditions. When a Jewish union leader from New York arrives to help them organize, he meets the impoverished and uneducated Norma Rae. Together they become a team, ready to wage a tough war against management. Set in the industrial South and based on a true story, Martin Ritt's NORMA RAE is a moving portrait of a woman's fight to improve both her own life and the deplorable conditions that exist in the mill where she works. Norma Rae (Sally Field) has worked at the textile mill for years, but when a union ... (more)

Release date: 2 March 1979
UPC: 024543013747

Tags: Drama (7), 1979 (4), Friendship (3), 1970s (3), Union (3), Textile Mill (3), Racism (2), Factory (2), Social Issues (2), Feminist (2), Jewish (2), Single Mother (2), Motel (2), Activist (2), Factory Worker (2), 20th Century Fox (2), Best Lead Actress Oscar (2), Labor Union (2), Machinery (2), Police Escort (2)

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