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

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min.
Directed By: Lee Grant
Genres: Drama

In Theaters: Jan 16, 1984 Wide

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Cast

            John W. Carroll as Ray Artisan

            Peter Dvorsky as John Mack

            Jeannie Elias as Shirly Solyntjes

            Gillian Farrell as Sylvia Erickson

            Tom Harvey as Vern Dimmick

            Mary Pirie as Donna Fern

            Pamela Putch as Jane Harguth

            Joanne Strauss as Doris Boshart

            Layne Coleman as Billy Dimmick

            Philip Craig as Roy Wallin

            Nicky Guadagni as Mary

            Marcia Bennett as Clara

            Roger Dunn as Robert Sykes

            Bob Warner as Mr. Rasmussen

            Charles Jolliffe as Rev. Howell

            Morris Buchanan as Judge Garfield

            Bob Church as 1st TV Reporter

            Barbara Kyle as 2nd TV Reporter

            Sharon Dyer as Mrs. Jacobson

            Jan Chamberlin as Mrs. Simmons

            Michael J. Reynolds as Bruce Jennings

            Murray Westgate as 1st Union Man

            Helen Caracallea as 2nd Railroad Woman

            Peter Spance as Young Man

            Dinah Manoff as Glennis Rasmussen

            Jean Stapleton as Irene Wallin

            Judge Reinhold as Tobe Rasmussen

            Nancy Beatty as Sandi Treml

            Marvin Karon as Darryl Lund

            Diana Reis as Terren Novotny

            Peter Spence
            
            Sharon Noble
            
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