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Starring: Barbara Baxley,  Beau Bridges,  Robert Broyles,  John Calvin,  Booth Colman, 
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Release Date: 1979
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Format: Anamorphic,  Closed-captioned,  Color,  DVD-Video,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

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In an Oscar-winning performance, Sally Field is unforgettable as Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer (Ron Leibman) and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the mesmerizing tale of a modern day heroine. Beau Bridges co-stars.

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Veteran director Martin Ritt (Sounder) directed this earnest and very popular tale of a naive textile worker, widow, and mother in the U.S. South who becomes empowered by standing up for her rights in the workplace. Sally Field stars in the Oscar-winning title role as a woman who has been content to go along with the status quo until she realizes that she is entitled to more and can succeed if she stands up for herself. Her fight to improve deplorable working conditions at the textile plant causes a rift between her and the people closest to her, but her determination brings a new awareness to her and to all the women with whom she works. Ritt's typical, socially conscious story uses the politics of Norma Rae's struggle and also its emotions to build the film to a rousing climax. --Robert Lane

Customer Reviews for Norma Rae

Norma Rae: Compassion and Grit
Sally Field won a Best Actress Academy Award for playing 'Norma Rae', and with good reason. She played the Strong, Compassionate no-nonsense woman to perfection.This type of woman, who earns success and stays compassionate doesn't come around everyday: Senator Hillary Clinton has it: In the 2008 Presidential Primary race, Hillary Clinton not only earned more votes than any of her rivals, she earned more votes than any other Presidential Primary candidate in the history of America (and earned 311 electoral votes, to her Party's presumptive nominee who earned 227 - 270 needed to win in November - On August 28,2008, the Party chooses it's nominee for President)Norma Rae

"Union"
Very, very good part. Sally Field, plays a wonderful role. I personal know what's it's like to work for a factory, even thou there was union. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes Sally Field.Norma Rae

Southern worman
A true storey.A killwprker, a texile worker an she stared a union that goes alway to NYC.Norma Rae

Norma Rae
The diminutive but plucky Field, who got her start playing Gidget on television, achieved breakout movie stardom with her assured, Oscar-winning performance as Norma Rae, who evolves from pliant employee to impassioned agitator for workers' rights. The interplay between Norma Rae and unlikely ally Reuben (Leibman) is interesting to watch, but ultimately it's the emergence of Norma Rae's righteous fire that's most memorable, reminding us that in this country, fighting for the fair treatment of working people is both a right and necessity.Norma Rae

Norma Rae
The DVD arrived in excellent condition. Have been away and have not had time to view it yet.Norma Rae

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