Norma Rae
Mar 02, 1979 | IMDB 7.2
110 min Watch NowDrama
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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IMDB 7.7 | Mar , 1996
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IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 1980
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IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 1962
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IMDB 7 | Aug , 1967
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IMDB 7.4 | Feb , 2004
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IMDB 6 | Apr , 1983
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IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 2006
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IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 2001
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IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 2002
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