Bread and Roses

09/14/2000

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1hr 50min

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Comedy

,Drama

The Balance of Power Is About to Change

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Pilar Padilla
  • Adrien Brody
  • Jack McGee
  • Monica Rivas
  • Frankie Davila

    Directors

  • Ken Loach
  • Ricardo Méndez Matta
  • Susanna Lenton
  • Bradley Morris
  • Sharon Swab

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Parallax Pictures
  • Road Movies
  • Tornasol Media
  • Alta Films

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Spain

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • Spanish

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