Film · Drama
Norma Rae (1979)
The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.
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.
- Director
- Martin Ritt
- Writers
- Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr., Norman Gimbel
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- March 2, 1979
Cast
Sally FieldNorma Rae
Ron LeibmanReuben
Beau BridgesSonny
Pat HingleVernon
Barbara BaxleyLeona
Gail StricklandBonnie Mae
Morgan PaullWayne Billings- Robert BroylesSam Bolen
John CalvinEllis Harper
Booth ColmanDr. Watson
Lee de BrouxLujan
James LuisiGeorge Benson
Vernon WeddleReverend Hubbard
Gilbert GreenAl Landon
Bob MinorLucius White
Grace ZabriskieLinette Odum- Stuart CulpepperRay Towner
Mary MundayMrs. Johnson- Jack StrykerJ.J. Davis
Gregory WalcottLamar Miller
