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  1. 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

  2. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A young single mother and her co-worker try to unionize the mill where they work. Cast & Crew. Read More. Martin Ritt. Director. Sally Field. Beau Bridges. Ron Leibman. Clayton Landey. Barbara Baxley. Photos & Videos.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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...

  7. Thriller. Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt from a screenplay written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr.

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