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Norma
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 17, 2001
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sally Field & Beau Bridges | |
Performer: | Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley, Gail Strickland, Morgan Paull, John Calvin, Booth Colman, Bob Minor & Grace Zabriskie | |
Directed by | Martin Ritt | |
Edited by | Sidney Levin | |
Screenplay by | Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank Jr. | |
Composition by | David Shire | |
Art Direction by | Tracy Bousman | |
Produced by | Tamara Asseyev & Alexandra Rose | |
Director of Photography: | John A. Alonzo |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Actress: Sally Field
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Original Song: David Shire & Norman Gimbel
Cannes 1979 -
Best Actress: Sally Field
Entertainment Reviews:
...NORMA RAE is a superb film. Paced by Sally Field's best performance to date....An intelligent film with heart...
Variety
While no flying nun, Sally Field is no less than heavenly as a wife and mother, organizing her fellow workers in a Southern textile factory.
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The Nation
A good story told with a passionate feeling and a difficult simplicity. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 4/5 --
Inspiring pro-union story is good watch-together fare.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 4/5 --
Norma Rae is a seriously concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, Miss Field's, that is spectacular.
New York Times
...NORMA RAE is a seriously concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, [Field's], that is spectacular.
New York Times
As a rule, the filmmakers manufacture fake climaxes every 10 or 15 minutes, poop out and lapse into forgetfulness, just as if they were structuring the material for television.
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Washington Post
Product Description:
Set in the industrial South and based on a true story, Martin Ritt's NORMA RAE is a moving portrait of a woman's fight to improve both her own life and the deplorable conditions that exist in the mill where she works. Norma Rae (Sally Field) has worked at the textile mill for years, but when a union organizer from New York comes to town, Norma takes on the hostility of the mill's management and the apathy of her coworkers to try to unionize the mill. Field plays Norma Rae as a passionate woman who realizes her own potential and her need to rebel against the status quo. She is also infuriated by the conditions at the mill. When Norma, uneducated and poor, finally expresses her disgust with life at the mill, it is an electrifying moment, and Field radiates this energy for the rest of the film, providing an emotional core and drive that gives the picture its power.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 129,393
- UPC: 024543013747
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