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Norma Rae

1979 110 min 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.

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2 wins

  • 1979 ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (Norma Rae) Sally Field
  • 1979 MUSIC (Original Song) (It Goes Like It Goes) Norman Gimbel, David Shire

2 nominations

budget $4,500,000 earnings $22,228,000 return 4.9x

director Martin Ritt

writers Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch

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