Bread and Roses
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.
Year: 2000
Studio: Parallax Pictures, Road Movies, Tornasol Media, Alta Films, Bac Films, BiM Distribuzione, Cinéart, Filmkollektiv Zürich AG, Film4 Productions, WDR/Arte, La Sept Cinéma, ARD Degeto, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas, Frankie Davila, Lillian Hurst
Crew: Ken Loach (Director), Martin Johnson (Production Design), Ray Beckett (Sound Recordist), Michele Michel (Costume Designer), Ronnie Yeskel (Casting), Richard Hicks (Casting)
Runtime: 110 minutes
Release: Sep 14, 2000
IMDb: 6.30/10 by 125 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland
Language: English, Español
Budget: 5
Revenue: 706
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