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Norma Rae

Name: Norma Rae
Genre: Drama
Released: 1979-03-02
Duration: 1 h 50 min

1979 · 1h 50m · PG · English · United States of America

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.

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Director: Martin Ritt
Writers: Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
Release date: March 2, 1979
Runtime: 1h 50m
Original language: English
Production countries: United States of America
Production companies: 20th Century Fox, Martin Ritt Productions, Rose and Asseyev Productions
Certification: PG
Budget: $4,500,000
Revenue: $22,228,000

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Keywords

factorybased on novel or bookalabamabased on true storysingle motherunionlaborlabor organizerlabor unionworkers uniontextile workercotton millworker's rights

Cast

Sally Field

Norma Rae

Ron Leibman

Reuben

Beau Bridges

Sonny

Pat Hingle

Vernon

Barbara Baxley

Leona

Gail Strickland

Bonnie Mae

Morgan Paull

Wayne Billings

Robert Broyles

Sam Bolen

John Calvin

Ellis Harper

Booth Colman

Dr. Watson

Lee de Broux

Lujan

James Luisi

George Benson

Vernon Weddle

Reverend Hubbard

Gilbert Green

Al Landon

Bob Minor

Lucius White

Grace Zabriskie

Linette Odum

Stuart Culpepper

Ray Towner

Mary Munday

Mrs. Johnson

Jack Stryker

J.J. Davis

Gregory Walcott

Lamar Miller

Noble Willingham

Leroy Mason

Lonny Chapman

Gardner

Bert Freed

Sam Dakin

Bob Hannah

Jed Buffum

Edith Ivey

Louise Pickens

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