Bread and Roses
(2000)
★ 6.3 IMDb · 142 votes
Year: 2000
Runtime: 110 мин
Country: United Kingdom, Germany
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Pilar Padilla, Эдриен Броуди, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas, Frankie Davila, Lillian Hurst, Maria Orellana, Melody Garrett, Эльпидия Каррильо, Джордж Лопес
Plot
In Los Angeles, undocumented Mexican immigrant Maya finds work as a janitor through her sister, Rosa. However, as both work non-union, conditions are grim. After enduring abuse from her superiors, Maya is open to the pro-union rhetoric offered by organiser Sam Shapiro. Rosa, meanwhile, is far less interested in clashing with management, given the needs of her family, and a rift forms between the sisters.
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.