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Norma Rae (1979)

Sally Field , Beau Bridges  |  PG |  DVD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Robert Broyles, John Calvin, Booth Colman
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: April 17, 2001
  • Run Time: 110 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000059HAN
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,809 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Norma Rae" on IMDb

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Veteran director Martin Ritt (Sounder) directed this earnest and very popular tale of a naive textile worker, widow, and mother in the U.S. South who becomes empowered by standing up for her rights in the workplace. Sally Field stars in the Oscar-winning title role as a woman who has been content to go along with the status quo until she realizes that she is entitled to more and can succeed if she stands up for herself. Her fight to improve deplorable working conditions at the textile plant causes a rift between her and the people closest to her, but her determination brings a new awareness to her and to all the women with whom she works. Ritt's typical, socially conscious story uses the politics of Norma Rae's struggle and also its emotions to build the film to a rousing climax. --Robert Lane

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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.

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Sally Field gives the performance of a lifetime in this fact-based story of a factory worker who puts her life on hold to make life better for those around her. "Norma Rae"(1979) was a powerful eye-opener to the life led by ordinary people working under extremely poor working conditions.

Best known at the time for her light roles as "Gidget" and "The Flying Nun", and although she did capture an emmy for her outstanding performance as "Sybil", she was not thought of as a serious dramatic actress.Director Martin Ritt knew a good thing when he saw it though, insisted on casting her and his instincts were right. Sally went home from the Oscars that year with a well deserved Best Actress Award!

Norma Rae doesn't have much going for her in her life. She has two children that she's raising on her own,has lots of problems with men, and works in a textile mill in the south. The conditions of the mill are deplorable.The wages are pitiful, people on their feet all day, with barely a break, most going deaf from the noise of the machines, some even getting cancer. But it is the only job in town for most of the locals. A New York Union Organizer comes to town(Ron Leibman) and tries to convince the workers they should go Union and fight for their rights. Most are leary and afraid of loosing their jobs, but one decides it's the right thing to do.

Norma Rae goes against the grain to try and convince the 800 workers that this is the best thing for them and their children(Who will also probably work there some day). She becomes somewhat of an outcast but doesn't give up. She becomes more determined and defiant as ever as the film progresses. Eventually she realizes the power she holds.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Film That Doesn't Go Like It Goes June 15, 2000
By Kenneth
Format:VHS Tape
You go to the video store one night and you rent some film that you watch and think, "Yeah. That was OK. . .I shoulda gotten [that other film]." You return the tape. You get that other film and you watch it. The film is over, and you think, "That was OK, too, but I need to get [that other film]." You go to the video store to get that other film, and right next to it you see this film, Norma Rae, and it just happens on accident, but somehow you are attracted at first sight. So, you take that film home and you watch it and you think. . . "WOW! HOLY ----! THAT WAS THE BEST FILM YET!" This film is an attention-grabbing and overall outstanding film that leaves you with something every time you watch it. It stars Sally Field in one of her best performances, and you'll have no doubt in your mind that she is Norma Rae Webster. You return to the video store and find yourself asking, "How much to buy Norma Rae?"
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"Norma Rae" contains the thrilling performance by Sally Field as a woman on the wrong side of the tracks of life who decides it's time to stand up for the rights of her co-workers at a small textile plant.

She is offered and accepts a promotion when the plant's management tries to divert her, but a supervisory role doesn't appeal to her when her mother loses her hearing and she has to chastise her father for poor performance. Logically, inevitably she becomes more committed to fighting for a better life for herself and her loved ones and joins forces with a union organizer who came down from NYC. She ends up sacrificing all, including her self esteem, to give the workers more control over their working conditions.

Chills ran down my spine during the scene where she held up the "union" sign and another where she rebuked her husband for being non-supportive of her union efforts. I am not a union supporter, but I know good drama, strong performances, and a logical and interesting plot when I see it, so I recommend this fine film to all.

Hopefully they will give as much time and attention to dubbing and subtitling this movie into languages of third world countries because that's where this textile plant probably relocated a year after the events this film portrayed. A sad, sad outcome to an ideal.

No matter what the outcome, Sally Field delivers one of the finest performances in film history so "Norma Rae" gets only my highest recommendations!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Union! Union! Union! December 5, 2006
Format:VHS Tape
If you love great acting, memorable dialogue, unforgettable scenes that stay with you since the 1979 movie debut, and if you adore socially conscious films where the underdog outwits the oppressor, then Norma Rae is the film to return to.

Based on a true story about a Southern textile mill and attempts by a northern union organizer to form the first union, Norma Rae is fiction, not fact. Sally Field (b. 1946) as Norma Rae won a well-deserved Oscar in her embittered battle against hardnosed union management who turned a blind eye to the legitimate complaints of their long-suffering workers: excruciatingly high noise levels which deafened some employees, cotton fibers at the mill which caused lung disease, and scant wages barely higher than a sweat shop's for backbreaking work that literally killed some of the mill's loyal employees.

Management didn't care. After all, they were the only company in town. But Sally Field, egged on and smitten by a union representative from New York, brilliantly and subtly played by Ron Leibman (b. 1937), was a pawn in his hand. Had she not met Leibman it is doubtful that she would have risen to power in the never-named southern factory, which is really the famous J.P.Stevens out of North Carolina. The movie was filmed in Alabama.

The delightful culture and sense of place of the South is evoked, including choirsinging in churches, fire & brimstone preachers, and baking of delicious pies. Since I'd seen the film when it first came out, I was awaiting my favorite moment, one of the great moments in all of moviedom: the suspensful climax where Field climbs up on the table holding out a sign reading Union and turns round and round until each employee shuts off the deafening machine he or she is working at.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Already seen this one.Sally Fields is one of my favorite actresses
Sally Fields is a great actress. She did a wonderful job in this movie.altho I already saw this movie I would sit and watch it again.
Published 10 days ago by melvin long
5.0 out of 5 stars Norma Rae
Owning movies with Sally Field in them is a must for me. Everything seems to be perfectly satisfactory with the DVD. No complaints.
Published 1 month ago by Texas Pam
5.0 out of 5 stars As good as it was in the 70's!
I love this movie and wanted it for my collection. Watching it after so many years of not seeing it just confirmed what a good movie it really is. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Bookworm
5.0 out of 5 stars Good movie
Great movie? Sally Field is a great actress. It is a true story, and that makes it special for me.
Published 2 months ago by Gary Mueller
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Movie
I loved this movie and Sally Field did a good job in this movie very true to the real thing ,As I used to work at the same mill where this movie was filmed,It was filmed at Leshner... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great product and experience
I had to purchase this video for a class I am taking. The video was really good and I can't believe that I never watched it before. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Christopher M. Buschmeier
5.0 out of 5 stars Norma Rae
Norma Rae is a great movie. Sally Field was wonderful as the factory worker & union recruiter. I would watch this again.
Published 4 months ago by Jackie Meeks
5.0 out of 5 stars Norma Rae
Fun movie. Sally Field is always good to watch in any of her movies. In this movie, one can see how tiny she is.
Published 4 months ago by IDA M. WOOL
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this movie
And now i finally have my own personal copy...yahoo.I know lines and love Sally Fields in this great film Bout unions...
Published 6 months ago by Rosemarie De Angelis
5.0 out of 5 stars classic
A women's empowerment treatment that is worth watching again and again. I would recommend it for teen girls as well as women's groups.
Published 6 months ago by Patricia Brown
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