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Norma Rae

The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.

Rating 7.2 / 10Release March 2, 1979Runtime 110 min

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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