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Norma Rae works for minimum wage in a cotton mill. Her whole family has experienced health problems from working there, and after hearing a New York union organizer named Reuben speak, she decides to unionize the shop.
Spearheaded by a galvanizing Sally Field, Norma Rae is a heartening and politically powerful drama about an ordinary woman taking an extraordinary stand. Read Critics Reviews. TOP CRITIC. Aug...
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PG. Runtime: 1h 54min. Release Date: March 2, 1979. Genre: Drama. In an Oscar-winning performance, Sally Field is unforgettable as Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never had.
Aug 4, 2020 · Naomi Fry writes about the movie “Norma Rae,” from 1979, directed by Martin Ritt and starring Sally Field as a textile worker who fights for the unionization of her Southern home town’s mill.
Mar 2, 2019 · 40 Years Ago, Norma Rae Understood How Corporations Weaponized Race. The 1979 Sally Field–starring drama showed how solidarity between black and white workers was often targeted to undermine...
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Thriller. Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt from a screenplay written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr.
