Norma Rae

Titolo originale: Norma Rae
Regia: Martin Ritt |
Anno: 1979
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: factory | based on novel or book | alabama | based on true story | single mother | union | labor | textile worker | cotton mill |
Cast: Sally Field | Beau Bridges | Ron Leibman | Pat Hingle | Barbara Baxley | Gail Strickland | Morgan Paull | Robert Broyles | John Calvin | Booth Colman | Lee de Broux | James Luisi | Vernon Weddle | Gilbert Green | Bob Minor | Grace Zabriskie | Stuart Culpepper | Mary Munday | Jack Stryker | Gregory Walcott | Noble Willingham | Lonny Chapman | Bert Freed | Bob Hannah | Edith Ivey | Scott Lawton | Frank McRae | Gerry Okuneff | Gina Kaye Pounders | Henry Slate | Melissa Ann Wait | Joe Dorsey | Sherry Velvet Foster | Weona T. Brown | Carolyn Danforth | James W. Harris | Charlie Briggs | Billie Joyce Buck | Fred Covington | J. Don Ferguson | Sandra Dorsey | Harold E. Finch | Clayton Landey | Bill Pannell | George R. Robertson | Thomas D. Samford III | Roy Tatum | Paul Ellen | Jerry Michael Ray | Martin Ritt |

In una filanda che è l'unica fonte di vita di un villaggio dell'Alabama, nell' assenza di un sindacato gli operai sono completamnte alla mercè dei datori di lavoro. Norma Rae, dal carattere indipendente, riuscirà a far nascere una coscienza di classe tra i suoi colleghi di lavoro, ma dopo aver dovuto subire angherie di ogni tipo.

Approfondimenti

Sally Field did the film against Burt Reynolds' advice, and afterward ended their relationship. D
The film was the first of three pictures that Field made with director Martin Ritt. The others were [...] D
Many extras in the film were students from Auburn University, eight miles from Opelika, Alabama. D
Norma Rae Webster was ranked as #15 in the hero category in "AFI's Heroes and Villains" list. D
Sally Field's character Norma Rae sings along to Dolly Parton on the radio singing "It's All Wrong, [...] D
During one scene where Norma Rae and Reuben discuss how and where to go further with their organizin [...] D
When Sally Field won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for this movie, Field said t [...] D
Ranked #16 on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time (2006). D
Director Martin Ritt first conceptualized this movie when he saw an article in The New York Times by [...] D
Was released on the same day as Martin Ritt's 65th birthday and Harriet Frank Jr.'s 62nd birthday. D
The same night Sally Field won an Academy Award for her leading performance in this film was the sam [...] D
Sally Field's Best Actress Oscar winning performance was the only nominee in the category in a Best [...] D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to not be nominated for Best Director. D
Norma Rae's married name, Webster, means "weaver of cloth." D
The former Leshner textile mill in Opelika, Alabama, where part of this movie was filmed, was damage [...] D
The sound of the machines at the mill was problematic during filming because it made the dialogue ha [...] D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...] D
The final scene features Sally Field's character concluding from Reuben's goodbye, "Reuben, I think [...] D
When Norma Rae struggles not to be put into the police car, Sally Field struggled so hard that she b [...] D
Crystal Lee Sutton, the unionist who Norma Rae was based on, was not happy with this film, and felt [...] D
The same 20th Century Fox studio would years later make another heavyweight union film, Hoffa - Sant [...] D
Sally Field and Beau Bridges researched their roles by working in a factory. D
The only Best Picture Oscar nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Original Song. D
The film is based on a real-life union organizing campaign at J.P. Stevens Mill in Roanoke Rapids, N [...] D
Director Martin Ritt once said of Crystal Lee Sutton, "I've known a lot of women in my life, most of [...] D
The screenplay was written in six weeks. D
According to her autobiography, Shirley MacLaine wanted the lead role. D
According to a 1980 Washington Post article, Crystal Lee Sutton received no profits from the movie. D
Crystal Lee Sutton died September 11, 2009, in Burlington, N.C. She was 68. D
Marsha Mason, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, and Jill Clayburgh all passed on the title role. Raquel Welc [...] D
Martin Ritt: as a disgruntled factory worker. D