Norma Rae

UPC: 024543013747

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Mild Violence, Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language]

Summary: Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman), Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes dissension at home when Norma Rae's husband, Sonny (Beau Bridges), assumes that her activism is a result of a romance between herself and Reuben. Despite the pressure brought to bear by management, Norma Rae successfully orchestrates a shutdown of the mill, resulting in victory for the union and capitulation to its demands. Based on a true story, Norma Rae is the film for which Sally Field won her first Oscar; an additional Oscar went to David Shire and Norman Gimbel for the film's theme song, "It Goes Like It Goes." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Actress – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Screenplay – null Best Screenplay – null Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actress – Cannes Film Festival Grand Technical Prize – Cannes Film Festival Best Actress – National Board of Review Best Actress – New York Film Critics Circle Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: 20-minute "Backstory: Norma Rae"
Original theatrical trailer

Norma Rae

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 04/17/2001

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: 1 USA & territories, Canada, 2 PCM stereo

Runtime: 118 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 -- Norma Rae
1. Main Titles [3:05]
2. Deaf For A Little While [5:19]
3. The Union Organizer [3:04]
4. A New Friend [:35]
5. Another Union Guy [3:54]
6. A Promotion [1:03]
7. The Ball Game [:54]
8. Sonny Webster [1:23]
9. One Of These Days... [3:46]
10. Back On The Line [1:23]
11. Sonny's Offer [2:15]
12. What A Union Is [7:54]
13. The Inspection [1:53]
14. Joining Up [:55]
15. The New Organizer [1:39]
16. Things Move Slowly [4:37]
17. The Back Roads [3:35]
18. This Is The Life [1:58]
19. Domestic Problems [4:27]
20. Books [2:18]
21. A Stretchout [:35]
22. A Death In The Family [:31]
23. Our Own Another Jones [2:56]
24. Ugly Rumors [3:00]
25. Things Get Mean [1:59]
26. A Woman Alone [3:21]
27. Under Arrest [3:10]
28. I'm A Jailbird... [:56]
29. Sonny's Promise [2:34]
30. Union! [1:37]
31. Reuben's Farewell [1:25]
32. End Titles [2:50]

Michael Betzold

Before her Oscar-winning, breakthrough role as a union organizer in Norma Rae, Sally Field was famous for being television's The Flying Nun and for her subsequent lightweight comic work, particularly with Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit. Casting Field in the lead role of a poor, uneducated worker who organizes a Southern mill proved to be a stroke of genius. She wasn't known for portraying assertive, powerful characters, and so her transformation in the film from mousy and helpless to an icon of resistance symbolized for many audiences similar psychic and social journeys. Norma Rae became an authentic portrait of empowerment because its heroine (and the actress portraying her) seemed so ordinary to begin with. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Lee de Broux  Actor 
Gilbert Green  Actor 
Mary Munday  Actor 
Grace Zabriskie  Actor 
James Luisi  Actor 
Gregory Walcott  Actor 
J. Don Ferguson  Actor 
George R. Robertson  Actor 
Bob Minor  Actor 
Robert Broyles  Actor 
Clayton Landey  Actor 
Vernon Weddle  Actor 
Charlie Briggs  Actor 
Bert Freed  Actor 
Frank McRae  Actor 
Noble Willingham  Actor 
Joe Dorsey  Actor 
Roy Tatum  Actor 
Fred Covington  Actor 
John Calvin  Actor 
Bob Hannah  Actor 
Booth Colman  Actor 
Edith Ivey  Actor 
Henry Slate  Actor 
Jack Stryker  Actor 
Tamara Asseyev  Producer 
Harriet Frank, Jr.  Screenwriter 
Irving Ravetch  Screenwriter 
Martin Ritt  Director 
Alex Rose  Producer 
David Shire  Composer (Music Score) 
Sally Field  Actor 
Beau Bridges  Actor 
Ron Leibman  Actor 
Pat Hingle  Actor 
Barbara Baxley  Actor 
Gail Strickland  Actor 
Lonny Chapman  Actor 
Morgan Paull  Actor 

Country: USA