Norma Rae
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Mar 2, 1979 · Norma Rae: Directed by Martin Ritt. With Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle. A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
Thirty-one year old widowed mother Norma Rae Wilson lives in the southern US town of Henleyville, which contains one major employer, O.P. Henley Textiles. Like most of her friends and family, she works in Henley's mill - eight hundred on the line - those jobs on which the townsfolk rely to survive.
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Based on a true story, Sally Field stars as Norma Rae, a minimum-wage cotton mill worker who stands up for what she believes in and fights for better working conditions and pay for her fellow workers in the small-town mill.
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Norma Rae è un film del 1979 diretto da Martin Ritt, con Sally Field e Beau Bridges.
Norma Rae (1979) In director Martin Ritt's acclaimed social problem drama, based on the true reported tale of Crystal Lee Sutton, a small-town textile factory worker in Charlottesville, North Carolina:
“Norma Rae” is directed by Martin Ritt who was himself caught up in the Red Scare and was known for his socially conscious films like “Hud” (1963), “The Great White Hope” (1970), “Sounder” (1972), and “Cross Creek” (1983), whose recurring themes include corruption, racism, coercion of the individual, and the protection of ...
