Norma Rae
- Tue, Sep 30
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Martin Ritt Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1979
Starring: Barbara Baxley, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle, Ron Leibman, Sally Field
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.
In an Oscar-winning performance, Sally Field is unforgettable as Norma Rae, the Southern millworker who revolutionizes a small town and discovers a power in herself she never had. Under the guidance of a New York unionizer (Ron Leibman) and with increasing courage and determination, Norma Rae organizes her fellow factory workers to fight for better conditions and wages. Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the mesmerizing tale of a modern day heroine. Beau Bridges co-stars. -20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
featuring PA Bell Go to Hell from Third World Newsreel’s Newsreel Retrospective:
In April 1970, telecom workers from multiple unions across New York City engaged in a wildcat strike to secure better pay and improve working conditions. Newsreel’s film documents the street protests and picket lines that animated the strike, foregrounds the voices of striking workers who emphasize the racism and sexism that defined life on the job, and juxtaposes striking labor with corrupt management through montage. Short and agitational, it exemplifies how early Newsreel’s political commitments extended to the contemporary labor movement and its intersections with struggles against racism and sexism.
Doors Open 30 Minutes Before Showtime.