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.
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Sally Field
Norma Rae
Beau Bridges
Sonny
Ron Leibman
Reuben
Pat Hingle
Vernon
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