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Bread and Roses(2000)

Name: Bread and Roses
Released: 2000
Duration: 110 min

Movie1h 50mEnglishComedy, Drama

6.9

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62%

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Director: Ken Loach

Writer: Paul Laverty

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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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VM93

Yet another enjoyable film by Ken Loach with a markedly committed political trait. _Bread and Roses_ is his first work to be contextualised in the United States. The recurring themes of precariousness, illegal immigration and more general human misfortunes are the thread running through the story told. _Bread and Roses_’ tells of frustration, dedication, cooperation and injustice, tending, in partial countertendency to the more 'classic' Loach, to give a breath of energetic hope to its audience.

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