Released
Norma Rae
March 2 1979 (almost 46 years ago)Rating
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The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.
- Director: Martin Ritt
- Writers: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 50 m
- Budget: $4,500,000
- Box office: $22,228,000
- Country: United States of America
- Company: 20th Century Fox
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.
