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Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses

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Bread and Roses

NR·2000·110m

Summary

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.

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Director

Ken Loach

Writer

Paul Laverty

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Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$5,500,000.00

Revenue:

$706,876.00

Keywords

janitor
security guard
labor organizer
labor union
social realism