Norma Rae

(1979)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 211 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1979

Runtime: 114 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Martin Ritt

Cast: Салли Филд, Рон Либман, Бо Бриджес, Пэт Хингл, Barbara Baxley, Gail Strickland, Морган Полл, Robert Broyles, John Calvin, Booth Colman

Plot

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.

Like a lot of her family before her, Norma Rae works at the local textile mill, where the pay is hardly commensurate with the long hours and lousy working conditions. But after hearing a rousing speech by labor activist Reuben, Norma is inspired to rally her fellow workers behind the cause of unionism. Her decision rankles her family, especially her fiancé, Sonny, and provokes no shortage of contempt from her employers.