What is norma rae about
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The travel show in which a tetchy British comedian joins celebrities on jaunts to various international locales? All of these seemed solid options, if fairly mindless. Relaxing my brain, I decided, could wait for the night. It happens all the time! But in their mill town there is no other job, and no real alternative to the low-paying and dangerous work that the plant provides.
Norma Rae is a lively, but dependable, wife and mother in an Alabama mill town. Like her father, her mother and most of her friends, she works at the Henley mill, spinning and weaving cloth as the days go by without much apparent purpose.
Her "nothing special" life changes when she and her coworkers meet Reuben, a dedicated, smart-mouthed labor organizer down from New York to teach the Henley crew about solidarity in a place where workers and owners alike think "union" and "trouble" are synonymous. Sign In. Edit Norma Rae Jump to: Summaries 5 Synopsis 1. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Top Gap. See more gaps ». Some real-life events are re-created verbatim in the movie, including Norma Rae holding up the "UNION" sign and the plant workers shutting down their machines, and Norma Rae waking up her children to tell them about her relationships with their fathers.
When they leave the bar together with Reuben Sonny's hair is parted on the far right. It never appears that way again. Quotes Norma Rae Webster : Forget it! User reviews 57 Review. Top review. More than one actress's tour-de-force, an indelible and moving human story. In trying to get the textile mill she and her family work for unionized, Sally Field's Norma Rae Webster also tries to earn self-respect at any cost. She's been leading a dead-end existence: a single mother, still living with her family, sleeping with married men who abuse her.
But after being inspired by a union-organizer Ron Liebman, in an Oscar-worthy supporting performance , Norma Rae is awakened to the possibilities of life, and, what's more, everything that is wrong with the mill that seems to suck the energy and hope from those who stand there day after day trying to earn an honest dollar.
Martin Ritt's direction is focused and firmly rooted he never sugarcoats Norma Rae's character, and sometimes she's not that likable and the script manages to sidestep preachiness to get its points across entertainingly. The art direction is really the second star of the film: vivid, palpably hot and sweaty, with bits of cotton floating about in the air.
The mill in question becomes very familiar to us, as do the people who work there. Details Edit. Release date March 2, United States. United States. Official site. Norma Rae - Eine Frau steht ihren Mann. Opelika, Alabama, USA. Twentieth Century Fox. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit.
Runtime 1 hour 54 minutes. Related news.