- HD 1080
- Runtime: 110m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Director: Ken Loach
- Stars: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas, Frankie Davila
- keywords: janitor, security guard, labor organizer, labor union, social realism
- Production_studio: Alta Films S.A., Parallax Pictures, Film4 Productions
- Slogan: The Balance of Power Is About to Change
- The Bread and Roses is featured in the top rankings of 2000
- #66 in Top Comedy Movies of 2000
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.