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Norma Rae [DVD] [1979]
enlarge	Director: Martin Ritt Actors: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £2.34 as of 23/11/2009 18:04 GMT details You Save: £10.65 (82%) New (11) Used (4) from £2.30 Seller: citysupplies Rating: 3 reviews Sales Rank: 26559 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Parental Guidance Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 110 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5039036013857 ASIN: B00019HOPE Theatrical Release Date: 1997 Release Date: March 1, 2004 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Sally Field dazzles as defiant Norma Rae! August 8, 2005 F. V. L. Buliciri (London, UK) 10 out of 10 found this review helpful As an avid film buff I don't know why I overlooked Norma Rae for so long. All I can say now is what a brilliant film!I wish Hollywood would create more iconic roles for actresses today.Sally Field deserved to win the 1979 Best Actress Oscar for her role as Norma Rae Webster a disillusioned Southern white collar worker and mother of three who wishes to improve conditions for workers at the textile mill where she works by setting up a union much to the annoyance of her oppressive bosses at the mill.brThis film is interesting in the way that it shows Norma Rae's struggles to set up a union amidst the background of the restrictive American Southern Baptist town she grew up in,her failed relationships with men (two of her children have different fathers), her strained relationship with her husband(Beau Bridges)who feels neglected because of her devotion to the Union cause, the racial problem in her hometown where blacks and whites must put aside their differences in order to benefit from the union and her platonic relationship with New York union worker Reuben (Ron Leibman)who is the catalyst for the film's chain of events who opens up Norma Rae's eyes to life having much more to offer her than her present hum drum existence.brThis film is very much in the vein of Erin Brockovich(2000)where the worker has to stand his ground and fight for his/her voice to be heard by the oppressive corporate big boys.Sally Field's Oscar winning performance as Norma Rae Webster was ranked No 15 on the American Film Institute's Heroes list in their compilation of 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.It's good to see a great film with a powerful female lead character. SALLY FIELD TACKLING INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS November 18, 2008 JESSICA'S DAD (Trichur East, Kerala State, India) Norma Rae [1979] br /I saw the film (from my Dad's Collection), in our home theatre. Granted the acting is very good, the production is excellent and the story relevant, there's still something irritating (for me) in the way a young mother, Sally Field, ignores her husband (Beau Bridges) and kids to spend every possible moment , day and night, with a slimy union official (Ron Liebman). They are trying to bring the bring the workers at a Southern Textile Plant into much-needed solidarity and director, Martin Ritt is obviously trying equally as hard to avoid the usual cliches of the hard-hearted, pig-headed, capitalistic boss and the passive severely put-upon workers. Sally Field succeeds more than Ritt does. On the one hand, the textile workers learn how to strike, get better wages and a little employer respect. On the other hand, there's a family crying out for their mother. Music and credits are superb. Sally Field won an Academy Award for her performance. Woman organises union to beat bosses June 17, 2009 Stephen Smellie (Hamilton, Scotland) Very good depiction of the life of woman struggling to make ends meet in a southern states mill town who after some persistence from a union organiser chooses to fight back against the bosses to organise a union. Simple tale but well told and well acted. br /Stephen Smellie

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