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Bread and Roses (2000)

Movie"The Balance of Power Is About to Change"
Audience Score
63
Bread and Roses
NR 1 hr 50 minSep 14th, 2000Drama, Comedy
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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.
StarringPilar PadillaAdrien BrodyJack McGee
DirectorKen Loach
WriterPaul Laverty

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:September 14th, 2000
On DVD & Blu-ray:November 27th, 2001 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$5,500,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$706,876 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Ulrich Felsberg
Production Companies:Alta Films S.A., Parallax Pictures, Film4 Productions
Movie Tags:
labor unionsecurity guardjanitorsocial realismlabor organizer