Norma Rae…movie review

by Richard Subber | Jan 4, 2024 | Human Nature, Theater and play reviews

you have to sweat this one…

Movie review:

Norma Rae

1979

Rated PG

114 minutes

Not too many movies make you really feel like you’re sweating. Or really crying.

Norma Rae is one of the good ones. It’s hot and dirty work putting a union into a textile mill in North Carolina in the 1970s.

Sally Field was 33 years old when she played the “Go union!” gal in Norma Rae, and she puts all her photogenic energy into the role. She won the Oscar for Best Actress.

Ron Leibman is Reuben Warshowsky, the New York union guy who leads the way to sweating out the vote right down to the inevitable victory, and falls for Norma in a completely gentlemanly way.

Sad to say, Norma and Reuben lose the big prize: in their last minutes together, in a remarkably well-scripted exchange of halting words and gushing emotion, neither of these big talkers has the courage to say what is so obviously in their hearts.

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