Norma Rae
Mar 02 1979
•2h 50m
•Drama
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.
Cast
See allSally Field
Norma Rae
Beau Bridges
Sonny
Ron Leibman
Reuben
Pat Hingle
Vernon
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