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Film · 1979 · Drama
Norma Rae
Directed by Martin Ritt
1979
★ 4.1 editorial score
Sally Field took Best Actress and the union organizing is filmed as actual work: a North Carolina textile mill, a hired organizer from New York, and a millhand who starts asking questions.
“As Norma Rae, a small-town Southern mill worker, a widow with one legitimate child and another born out of wedlock, a resilient young woman of no great education but a lot of common sense, Miss Field gives a performance that is as firm and funny as the set of her glass jaw — and just as full of risk.”
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