Norma Rae PG

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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

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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:

Fresh88%

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Total Count: 26

Upright79%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 7,172
...NORMA RAE is a superb film. Paced by Sally Field's best performance to date....An intelligent film with heart...
Variety
Feb 28, 1979
While no flying nun, Sally Field is no less than heavenly as a wife and mother, organizing her fellow workers in a Southern textile factory. Full Review
The Nation
Jan 30, 2018
A good story told with a passionate feeling and a difficult simplicity. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
El Pais (Spain)
Aug 6, 2019
Rating: 4/5 -- Inspiring pro-union story is good watch-together fare. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Feb 1, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Norma Rae is a seriously concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, Miss Field's, that is spectacular.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
...NORMA RAE is a seriously concerned contemporary drama, illuminated by some very good performances and one, [Field's], that is spectacular.
New York Times
Mar 2, 1979
As a rule, the filmmakers manufacture fake climaxes every 10 or 15 minutes, poop out and lapse into forgetfulness, just as if they were structuring the material for television. Full Review
Washington Post
Apr 24, 2018

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: 129,393
  • UPC: 024543013747
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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