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Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 14, 2000

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

63%

Original Title

Bread and Roses

Production Companies

Alta Films S.A., Parallax Pictures, Film4 Productions

Director

Ken Loach

Budget

$5,500,000

Revenue

$706,876

Description

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.