- HD 1080
- Runtime: 110m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Martin Ritt
- Stars: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley
- keywords: factory, based on novel or book, alabama, based on true story, single mother, union, labor, textile worker, cotton mill
- Production_studio: 20th Century Fox
- Slogan: The story of a woman with the courage to risk everything for what she believes is right.
- The Norma Rae is featured in the top rankings of 1979
- #29 in Top Drama Movies of 1979
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.