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Bread and Roses (2000)

Bread and Roses (2000)

Drama Comedy

The Balance of Power Is About to Change

Release Date: 2000, September 14
Directors: Ken Loach
Countries: Germany, Spain, United Kingdom
Production: Parallax Pictures, Road Movies, Tornasol Media, Alta Films
Cast: Tim Roth, Benicio del Toro, George López, Ron Perlman, Samuel West, Oded Fehr, Pepe Serna, Elpidia Carrillo, William Atherton, Adrien Brody, Blake Clark, Chris Penn

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

social realism security guard janitor labor union labor organizer