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Norma Rae

Norma Rae

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 2, 1979

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama

User Score

71%

Original Title

Norma Rae

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Director

Martin Ritt

Budget

$4,500,000

Revenue

$22,228,000

Description

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.