Norma Rae
Summary:
Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman), Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes dis... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Sally Field - (Norma Rae)
Beau Bridges - (Sonny)
Ron Leibman - (Reuben)
Pat Hingle - (Vernon)
Barbara Baxley - (Leona)
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Review:
Before her Oscar-winning, breakthrough role as a union organizer in Norma Rae, Sally Field was famous for being television's The Flying Nun and for her subsequent lightweight comic work, particularly with Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit. Casting Field in the lead role of a poor, uneducated worker who organizes a Southern mi... Continue >>
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