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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 17, 2001
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sally Field & Beau Bridges | |
Performer: | Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley, Gail Strickland, Morgan Paull, John Calvin, Booth Colman, Bob Minor & Grace Zabriskie | |
Directed by | Martin Ritt | |
Edited by | Sidney Levin | |
Screenplay by | Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank Jr. | |
Composition by | David Shire | |
Art Direction by | Tracy Bousman | |
Produced by | Tamara Asseyev & Alexandra Rose | |
Director of Photography: | John A. Alonzo |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Actress: Sally Field
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Original Song: David Shire & Norman Gimbel
Cannes 1979 -
Best Actress: Sally Field
Entertainment Reviews:
...NORMA RAE is a superb film. Paced by Sally Field's best performance to date....An intelligent film with heart...
Variety
Rating: C+ --
Sally Field won her first Oscar playing union activist Norma Rae.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A good story told with a passionate feeling and a difficult simplicity. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Nicely performed by a strong cast, especially Field and Leibman, it's often mawkishly soft, but surprisingly touching.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
At its heart, Norma Rae isn't a button-wearing union film as much as it is a character study of one woman who is pushed to the point of doing something spectacular.
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7M Pictures
It's a dear and corny story, played with lovable grubbiness by Sally Field and Ron Leibman, but it's not about what you think.
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Washington Post
Photographed in murky yellows and browns by John Alonzo, this 1979 film is sluggish and vague, trivializing its subject in a wash of unearned sentimentality.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Set in the industrial South and based on a true story, Martin Ritt's NORMA RAE is a moving portrait of a woman's fight to improve both her own life and the deplorable conditions that exist in the mill where she works. Norma Rae (Sally Field) has worked at the textile mill for years, but when a union organizer from New York comes to town, Norma takes on the hostility of the mill's management and the apathy of her coworkers to try to unionize the mill. Field plays Norma Rae as a passionate woman who realizes her own potential and her need to rebel against the status quo. She is also infuriated by the conditions at the mill. When Norma, uneducated and poor, finally expresses her disgust with life at the mill, it is an electrifying moment, and Field radiates this energy for the rest of the film, providing an emotional core and drive that gives the picture its power.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 127,720
- UPC: 024543013747
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