A Matter of Sex (1984)
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A Matter of Sex is the calculatedly misleading title of a based-on-fact TV movie, which originally bore the more suitable title Women of Willmar. In 1976, the women working in a bank in Willmar, Minnesota become incensed because less-qualified men are being promoted over them. Head teller Jean… More A Matter of Sex is the calculatedly misleading title of a based-on-fact TV movie, which originally bore the more suitable title Women of Willmar. In 1976, the women working in a bank in Willmar, Minnesota become incensed because less-qualified men are being promoted over them. Head teller Jean Stapleton, with the help of attorney Peter Dvorsky and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, organizes an employee's union. When the chauvinistic bank officers cause negotiations to break down, Stapleton and seven other female employees go on strike--a job action which lasts for two years, despite political and social pressure from the community. Director Lee Grant, whose daughter Dinah Manoff is cast as one of the strikers, had previously helmed a documentary based on the same incident, The Willmar Eight--which was telecast on PBS the night before the January 1984 network premiere of A Matter of Sex. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Cast
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John W. Carroll
as Ray Artisan
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Peter Dvorsky
as John Mack
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Jeannie Elias
as Shirly Solyntjes
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Gillian Farrell
as Sylvia Erickson
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Tom Harvey
as Vern Dimmick
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Mary Pirie
as Donna Fern
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Pamela Putch
as Jane Harguth
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Joanne Strauss
as Doris Boshart
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Layne Coleman
as Billy Dimmick
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Philip Craig
as Roy Wallin
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Nicky Guadagni
as Mary
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Marcia Bennett
as Clara
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Roger Dunn
as Robert Sykes
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Bob Warner
as Mr. Rasmussen
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Charles Jolliffe
as Rev. Howell
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Morris Buchanan
as Judge Garfield
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Bob Church
as 1st TV Reporter
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Barbara Kyle
as 2nd TV Reporter
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Sharon Dyer
as Mrs. Jacobson
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Jan Chamberlin
as Mrs. Simmons
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Michael J. Reynolds
as Bruce Jennings
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Murray Westgate
as 1st Union Man
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Helen Caracallea
as 2nd Railroad Woman
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Peter Spance
as Young Man
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Dinah Manoff
as Glennis Rasmussen
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Jean Stapleton
as Irene Wallin
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Judge Reinhold
as Tobe Rasmussen
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Nancy Beatty
as Sandi Treml
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Marvin Karon
as Darryl Lund
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Diana Reis
as Terren Novotny
- Peter Spence
- Sharon Noble
