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Norma Rae

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Norma Rae
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PG,2hrs 0min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1979
Director:
Martin Ritt
Distributor:
20th Century Fox Film Corporat
Starring:
Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman  ...more
Synopsis: Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman), Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes dissension at home when Norma Rae's husband, Sonny (Beau Bridges), assumes that her activism is a result of a romance between herself and ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
Before her Oscar-winning, breakthrough role as a union organizer in Norma Rae, Sally Field was famous for being television's The Flying Nun and for her subsequent lightweight comic work, particularly with Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit. Casting Field in the lead role of a poor, uneducated worker who organizes a Southern mill proved to be a stroke of genius. She wasn't known for portraying assertive, ... Full Review
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