Norma Rae Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Ritt
Genres: Drama
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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 dissension at home when Norma Rae's husband, Sonny (Beau_Bridges), assumes that her activism is a result of a romance between herself and Reuben. Despite the pressure brought to bear by management, Norma Rae successfully orchestrates a shutdown of the mill, resulting in victory for the union and capitulation to its demands. Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the film for which Sally_Field won her first Oscar; an additional Oscar went to David_Shire and Norman_Gimbel for the film's theme song, "It Goes Like It Goes." Hal Erickson, Rovi
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