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Norma Rae

(1979)

March 2, 1979 1h 50m
72%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Martin Ritt

Director

Top Billed Cast

SF

Sally Field

Norma Rae

BB

Beau Bridges

Sonny

RL

Ron Leibman

Reuben

PH

Pat Hingle

Vernon

BB

Barbara Baxley

Leona

GS

Gail Strickland

Bonnie Mae

MP

Morgan Paull

Wayne Billings

RB

Robert Broyles

Sam Bolen

JC

John Calvin

Ellis Harper

BC

Booth Colman

Dr. Watson

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