7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Norma Rae (1979)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.4
Overview
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Low
Judaism: Positive
Overview
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by championing labor union organizing and collective action as a solution to corporate exploitation and the systemic disempowerment of the working class.
The film 'Norma Rae' features a cast that primarily reflects the demographics of its 1970s Southern setting, focusing on a white working-class community. Its narrative centers on labor rights and the empowerment of a white female protagonist, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities based on race or gender, but rather on class and economic exploitation.
Secondary
The film portrays Reuben Warshovsky, a Jewish union organizer, as a principled and courageous individual fighting for workers' rights. While he faces some prejudice from locals due to his outsider status and Jewish identity, the narrative clearly positions the audience to sympathize with him and his cause, implicitly condemning bigotry.
Norma Rae does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The film's narrative is exclusively centered on labor unionization and the social and economic struggles of textile factory workers in a Southern town, with no depiction of queer identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Norma Rae is a biographical drama based on real historical figures. The film portrays all characters, including the titular Norma Rae and other key individuals, with genders consistent with their historical or canonical identities, without any changes.
The film "Norma Rae" is a biopic based on the real-life story of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white textile worker and union organizer. The main characters, including Norma Rae and Reuben Warshovsky, are portrayed by actors whose race aligns with the historical figures or the original character conception.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.3
7.2
Critic Ratings
9.1
6.1
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