Sally Field is such a very good actress and shines in: Norma Rae.
Field plays Norma Rae whom lives in a very small town. Her livelihood depends on her job at the local and very established factory until one day things start to change for the worse. Norma then decides to take ...( read more)
Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman
In an Oscar-winning performance, Sally Field is unforgettable as Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never knew she had. Under the g...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 17, 2001
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September 13, 2008
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March 6, 2008
wooo hoooo now boys it's Sally Field in a rootin tootin norma rae adventure!!!
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March 4, 2008
Sally Field gives a bright and forceful performance as Norma Rae, a cotton mill worker and single mother living with her parents, who also work at the mill. In fact, the mill is the town's main employer and, as such, sees fit to run roughshod over the rights of its employees. The...( read more)
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November 18, 2007
Sally Field gave an excellent performance as a worker in a crappy factory who risks everything to improve the conditions there by unionizing.
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July 7, 2007
Norma Rae is an uplifting story of a woman starting the first union at a factory. I really got into it.
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July 26, 2009
Entertaing and original drama about the development of a Union in a Alabama textile factory. What makes this film great is the relationship between Sally Field and Ron Leibman.Everyone in the film is good,but these two make the film.He is a New York Union organizer and she is a w...( read more)
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July 23, 2009
Sally Field makes her outstanding performance (she won her first Best Actress Oscar) as a southern textile work attempting to unionise the mill with the aid of organiser Ron Leibman. Film is based on a true story and has good eyes and ears for authenticity. Entire case is first r...( read more)
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