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Friday film: Norma Rae
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suzanne Nguyen)
Thu Jul 24 21:51:32 2003
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:51:58 -0400
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From: Suzanne Nguyen <suzanne@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,
Social Justice Cooperative, in conjunction with Students for Labor
Justice,
will be showing a series of films about labor. The first of our series is
a classic: "Norma Rae." Come join us Friday night!
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Norma Rae (1979, 118 minutes)
8pm, Friday, July 25
4-231
Free screening
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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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SJC Friday film website:
http://web.mit.edu/justice/film/
Students for Labor Justice website:
http://web.mit.edu/labor/www/
- Suzanne
