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Norma Rae (1979)
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Veteran director Martin Ritt (Sounder) directed this earnest and very popular tale of a naive textile worker, widow, and mother in the U.S. South who becomes empowered by standing up for her rights in the workplace. Sally Field stars in the Oscar-winning title role as a woman who has been content to go along with the status quo until she realizes that she is entitled to more and can succeed if she stands up for herself. Her fight to improve deplorable working conditions at the textile plant causes a rift between her and the people closest to her, but her determination brings a new awareness to her and to all the women with whom she...
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The always-over-the-top Sally Field stars as the title character in this film about unions in the South and the lengths that people had to go to so that they could recieve benefits and the like. The topic has been covered in other, better films here, but there is something so deliciously and uniquely 70's about this film...
(complete Norma Rae review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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