Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 04/17/2001
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: 1/2
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Norma Rae finds
Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of
Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her
Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer
Reuben (
Ron Leibman),
Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes dissension at home when
Norma Rae's husband,
Sonny (
Beau Bridges), assumes that her activism is a result of a romance between herself and
Reuben. Despite the pressure brought to bear by management,
Norma Rae successfully orchestrates a shutdown of the mill, resulting in victory for the union and capitulation to its demands. Based on a true story,
Norma Rae is the film for which
Sally Field won her first Oscar; an additional Oscar went to
David Shire and
Norman Gimbel for the film's theme song,
"It Goes Like It Goes." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
