Norma Rae (1979)

7.2/10 110 min Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Sally Field

Norma Rae

Beau Bridges

Sonny

Ron Leibman

Reuben

Pat Hingle

Vernon

Barbara Baxley

Leona

Gail Strickland

Bonnie Mae

Morgan Paull

Wayne Billings

John Calvin

Ellis Harper

Booth Colman

Dr. Watson

Lee de Broux

Lujan

James Luisi

George Benson

Vernon Weddle

Reverend Hubbard

Gilbert Green

Al Landon

Grace Zabriskie

Linette Odum

Mary Munday

Mrs. Johnson

Gregory Walcott

Lamar Miller

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