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Synopsis: Like a lot of her family before her, Norma Rae works at the local textile mill, where the pay is hardly commensurate with the long hours and lousy working conditions. But after hearing a rousing speech by labor activist Reuben, Norma is inspired to rally her fellow workers behind the cause of unionism. Her decision rankles her family, especially her fiancé, Sonny, and provokes no shortage of contempt from her employers.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Martin Ritt
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporat
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
PG
Year:
1979
114 min
907 Views


spread your legs for a poke,

and you're dumping me?

I heard a hell of a thump.

That was me, getting

throwed across the room.

I have some ice for that.

Sit down. Please.

You look all shook up.

Here, put this on.

I thought everybody down

South was Ashley Wilkes.

You lie down with

dogs, you get fleas.

Does this look broken to you?

Go like this.

No, I don't think so.

Do you want aspirin?

No, thanks.

Band-Aid? Valium?

You're a whole drugstore.

I'm a mild hypochondriac.

Keep that on it.

Ohh.

Me and men.

I ought to learn to say

no right from the start.

But if it wasn't men, I don't

know what it would be.

You got a lot of books.

I'm terrified I'll wake up

in a motel room one morning

and have nothing to read

but the phone book.

She got big eyes.

Yeah, got a big brain, too.

What's her name?

Dorothy Finkelstein.

She's a hotshot labor

lawyer out of Harvard.

She must be your girlfriend if

you haul her picture around.

We sleep together

on Sunday mornings

and read The New York Times.

I guess that makes

her my girlfriend.

Hey.

- I'm Norma Rae Wilson.

- Reuben Warshovsky.

Nice meeting you.

My pleasure. Keep

that on your nose.

I'm sorry about my daddy.

He got a short fuse.

My credentials keep me

out of a lot of places.

But once in a while,

someone puts me in

their best bedroom

and treats me like a cousin.

- Ha ha ha!

- What?

That sure as heck

wouldn't be my daddy!

You a Jew?

I beg your pardon?

Are you a Jew?

Born and bred.

I never met a Jew before.

How you doing?

I heard you all had horns.

Circumcised, yes. Horns, no.

Well, as far as I can see,

you don't look any different

from the rest of us.

Well, we are.

Well, what makes you different?

History.

Oh.

You got it now?

Hey, it looks better.

I think it stopped.

Thanks for the ice.

Any time.

Christ, I hope not.

Good morning.

I'm from the Textile

Workers' Union of America.

Read this when you have a

chance, on your break.

Thank you. Good morning.

Read this when you

have a chance, please.

Thank you.

Here you go.

Good morning.

Read this when you have a chance.

I'm from the Textile

Workers' Union of America.

Read this when you have a chance.

Read this on your break.

Want to read this

when you can, please?

I'm from the Textile

Workers' Union of America.

You want to read this

when you have a chance?

Good morning.

You want to read this when

you get home, please?

I'm with the Textile

Workers' Union of America.

Read this on your break.

Good morning!

How's your nose?

Read that on your break.

There's too many big words.

If I don't understand it, they

ain't gonna understand it.

That fellow your friend, Norma?

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Irving Ravetch

Irving Dover Ravetch (November 14, 1920 – September 19, 2010) was an American screenwriter and film producer who frequently collaborated with his wife Harriet Frank Jr. more…

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