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Norma Rae

The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.

1979 · PG · 1h 50m

Directed by Martin Ritt

7.2

TMDB audience score
217 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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