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Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt from a screenplay written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. The film is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton [4] [5] – which was told in the 1975 book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by reporter Henry P. Leifermann of The New York Times [6] – and stars Sally Field in the title role.
Crystal Lee Sutton (née Pulley; December 31, 1940 – September 11, 2009) was an American union organizer and advocate who gained fame in 1979 when the film Norma Rae was released, based on events related to her being fired from her job at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on May 30, 1973, for "insubordination" after she copied an anti-union letter posted on the ...
If you had polled the opening night audience of The Beautician and the Beast back in 1997, few moviegoers would have predicted that Fran Drescher — let alone President Drescher — would someday ...
In October 2021, Lionsgate revealed the official poster of the film. [7] Dangerous was released in the US and Canada theatres as well as on-demand on 5 November 2021. [7] On 18 November, it was released in the Middle East followed by release in Europe in mid-December 2021. Dangerous received worldwide DVD and Blu-ray release on 14 December 2021 ...
AFI winner for Best Film Dust in the Sun: Hard to Windward: AFI winner for Best Film Smiley Gets a Gun: The Stowaway: 1959: L' Ambitieuse (The Restless and the Damned) Yves Allégret: Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andrea Parisy, Nicole Berger, Nigel Lovell, Reg Lye, Jean Marchat, Denise Vernac: Drama: IMDb: Edge of the Deep: AFI winner for ...
The AACTA Award for Best film is presented by AACTA, a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote, and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television". [9] The award is presented at the annual AACTA Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements in feature film, television, documentaries and short ...
In December 2020, they appeared in a spoof YouTube video reviewing the year 2020. [19] Around 2006 Hopscotch Entertainment released a DVD Margaret & David at the Movies interactive quiz, hosted by Stratton and Pomeranz, containing around 1500 film-based questions (and answers), with list of rules and scoresheet.
Writing in The Australian David Stratton gave it 3 1/2 stars stating "Beautifully photographed by Kevin Scott, The Flood is in many ways spectacular, but it’s also very bitter in its depiction of the injustice and violence meted out to Indigenous Australians in the not-too-distant past, though it ends on a note of reconciliation.