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Norma Rae

1979 • 1h50m Drama

Rating

7.2/10

Popularity

2

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.

Details

Director

Martin Ritt

Screenplay

Harriet Frank Jr.

Irving Ravetch

Cast

Sally Field

Beau Bridges

Ron Leibman

Release date

3/2/1979

Status

Released

Budget

$4,500,000

Revenue

$22,228,000

Origin country

US

Vote count

190