Norma Rae
1979 · 110 min
Directed by Martin Ritt. Written by Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch. Starring Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle.
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.
Critics 90% · audiences 79% · 3 Oscar nominations, 1 won