Norma Rae

Pros: Excellent Portrayal Of Southern Factory Workers
Cons: The naïve belief that unions can solve all the problems of the working class

Norma Rae is a weaver in a North Carolina textile mill in the late 'seventies. Her mother, father and husband all work in the same mill. Norma Rae is proud and feisty. When a coworker comments on her eating just an apple for lunch, skinny Norma Rae decla ...

Pros: Lots
Cons: Very few

I couldn’t have planned this better, but the last two movies I watched before Norma Rae were exactly the kind of movies that Norma Rae was the perfect antidote for. The first, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, actually ...

Pros: Good product, solid acting
Cons: none

Coming from a labor based family with my mom slaving for 23 years in a shoe factory, her highest rate of pay $1.65 per hour, I had no trouble identifying with this movie. Watching mom open her bleak $65.00 a week paycheck and still manage to raise three...

Pros: Great acting, Inspirational Story
Cons: Plot moves slowly, Can be hard to follow in detail

Norma Rae is the moving story of a woman's efforts to unionize the textile mill where she works, despite staunch opposition from the company's management, ignorant coworkers, and even her own family.

Although the following paragraph...

Pros: One of the finest labor films ever made
Cons: Not for the cynical, the conservative, the racist or the sexist

Every once in awhile, I come across a movie, and I wonder: "How did this one ever get made?" I don't mean stinkers, movies out of Hollywood of such low quality that it makes one delve into conspiracy theories. I mean pictures with such superb...

Pros: Sally Field's acting
Cons: That abominable Oscar-winning end-credit song sung by Jennifer Warnes

America is unabashedly a capitalist society. Business is out to make a profit any way it can; so are the people who work for big business. This is the fruitful tension in which labor and management live on a daily basis; this protagonist-antagonist...

Pros: Classic example of Marxist Theory, and Feminism. Union Film.
Cons: Norma Rae has a reputation for sleeping around.

Norma Rae is a True Life Story Norma Rae, named after the protagonist, is actually a fictionalized account of the true life story of textile mill worker Crystal Lee Sutton and the company she worked for, J.P. Stevenson and Company based in ...

Pros: Sally Field was superb!
Cons: None.

The first time watching this 1978 movie, I was quite impressed with this because in the mid-western state, especially if you are a woman you are expected to keep your big mouth shut and go along with what you are expected to do. Your job is only to...

Pros: good acting, good plot
Cons: none

Norma Rae portrays one woman’s struggle to establish a labor union for mill workers in a small, Southern town. Norma Rae, played by Sally Field, represents the key rebel image throughout the entire film. Norma’s rebellion is issued forth by her actions...

Pros: great acting, moving, a film mogul, you learn something
Cons: not action packed... you might have to think, not a great date movie......

I decided to write this epinion just because I couldn't stand there only being one existing review that trashed this movie....

I am also quite young (22) but absolutely loved Norma Rae. It is easy to see why this film received such great...

Pros: Sally Field
Cons: boring if you don't relate to the era

It is a fact that I actually said "Norma who?" the first time I heard of this movie. But then again, I was only four years old when it came out. And perhaps if I had been a little older and had seen it during the time when it was popular, I...