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Norma Rae
Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value grounded social drama about ordinary people finding courage through collective action and personal conviction.
- Tone
- tense, uplifting, bittersweet
- Payoff
- inspiration, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- labor rights, solidarity, dignity, economic injustice, courage
- Setting
- late twentieth century, small-town southern textile mill