Norma Rae
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Actor: Beau Bridges, Booth Colman, John Calvin, Robert Broyles, Sally FieldBrand: FIELD,SALLY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-17
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Norma Rae
Movie Review: Sometimes you have to fight for your rights...
Summary: 5 Stars
There are a lot of films about the overworked and underappreciated finally standing up for themselves and fighting for what they know they are owed; but `Norma Rae' is a notch above most of them. Not only is it moving but it is engrossing and enlightening. It works its magic in all areas of the film; shedding light on the issues, gathering our support and fleshing out three-dimensional characters we love, love to hate and even hate to love.
Norma is a small town girl who is doing what she's been brought up to do. She's a widow who is raising her two children while living with her overprotective father and working in the same mill as her parents. She is going nowhere fast, but she doesn't know any better. Then Reuben shows up in her town and tosses her whole life upside down. Reuben is a unionizer from New York who is determined to make things better for the working class people in the area. He only needs to rally enough support from the likes of Norma, and after she witnesses what the corrupt men in power are willing to do to prevent the union she becomes all the more determined to get it passed.
What is so wonderful about `Norma Rae' is that it is as much about the woman that is Norma as it is about the union she so fervently wants to get passed. The film is interested in her as a person, and thus we become interested in her; in her family life, her love life, her past and her eventual future. The film's primary interest is focused on her dedication to the union, but it also gives ample time to build her relationship with her small town boyfriend/husband Sonny as well as her budding relationship with Reuben.
The film is multilayered.
Sally Field won her first Oscar for her riveting portrayal of Norma. It's funny; when the film starts we get a taste of overacting at its finest with Norma screaming at her boss about how her mother is deaf because of the noise in the mill. I immediately began to wonder if this was going to be one of those flashy performances that is almost all show and no depth. I said a silent prayer that Field not scream through this whole movie and my prayer was instantly answered. Yes, Field is impeccable here, capturing the essence of this woman with steely determination. Some of her quieter scenes are her most captivating; especially when she confesses to her husband that Reuben is in her head. That scene is instantly stolen from her though, but her co-star Beau Bridges who grabs your heart with when he responds that no one else is in his head by Norma. Beau has gotten the shaft over the years. I guess that's what happens when your brother is Jeff Bridges. I must tell you though, Beau is a talent all his own. His performance here is beyond words. He is so moving, so sincere and so lovable.
Every husband should strive to be more like him, and every woman would be lucky to find a man like him.
`Norma Rae' is a splendid film about one woman's struggle to save her family and her entire town from the clutches of corruption; to give them what they work so hard for and spare them any further abuse. It is also a story of a woman's struggle to find herself amidst a town that never changes and barely allows room for self expression. This is a film about life and what you make of it and what you're willing to sacrifice in order to get what you deserve.
Summary of Norma Rae
Grinding out her life in a small Southern town as a worker in a non-union textile shop, Norma Rae (Sally Field) joins forces with a New York labor organizer to unionize the mill.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 17-DEC-2002
Media Type: DVD
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