| Norma Rae (1979)
|
| -->
|
| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
|
| Sally Field |
Norma Rae
|
| Beau Bridges |
Sonny
|
| Ron Leibman |
Reuben
|
| Pat Hingle |
Vernon
|
| Gail Strickland |
Bonnie Mae
|
| Barbara Baxley |
Leona
|
| Lonny Chapman |
Gardner
|
| Morgan Paull |
Wayne Billings
|
| George R. Robertson |
Farmer
|
| Henry Slate |
Policeman
|
| Robert Broyles |
Sam Bolen
|
| John Calvin |
Ellis Harper
|
| Booth Colman |
Dr. Watson
|
|
|
|
| Plot |
| 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 the film's main song, It Goes Like It Goes. — Hal Erickson |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Drama |
| Director |
Martin Ritt |
| Producer |
Tamara Asseyev; Alex Rose; Alexandra Rose |
| Writer |
Harriet Frank, Jr.; Irving Ravetch; Harriet Frank Jr. |
|
| Studio |
20th Century Fox |
| Country |
USA
|
| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG |
| Running Time |
120 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
3/2/1979 |
| Color |
Color |
|
| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
434 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
3/28/2005 |
|
| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
024543013747 |
| Chapters |
32 |
| Release Date |
12/17/2002 |
| Subtitles |
English; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
|
|
Extra Features
|
| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen |
|
)
)
