CLASSIC MOVIES: NORMA RAE (1979)

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Brief Movie Synopsis [courtesy of The Internet Movie Database]:

A textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill
despite the problems and dangers involved.
Oscar winner: Best Actress (Sally Field).

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REVIEWS:

"Norma Rae...provides Sally Field with the plum role of her career,
an opportunity to demonstrate once and for all that she is an actress
of dramatic intelligence and force, someone who no longer need be
referred to in terms of her television credits. .... The politics of
the film are worthy but they are never as surprising as the people,
especially Norma Rae, whose personality is defined in her often comic,
sometimes brutal, sometimes touching encounters with ex-husbands,
lovers, children, parents, strangers. .... 'Norma Rae' is a seriously
concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good
performances and one, Miss Field's, that is spectacular."

-- Excerpt from The New York Times; March 2, 1979

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