Norma Rae (1979)
The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.
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.
- Date of release
- 1979-03-02
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (214)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Martin Ritt
Casting
- 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
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