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.

Cast

Sally Field

Norma Rae

Beau Bridges

Sonny

Ron Leibman

Reuben

Pat Hingle

Vernon

Barbara Baxley

Leona

Gail Strickland

Bonnie Mae

Morgan Paull

Wayne Billings

N/A

Robert Broyles

Sam Bolen

John Calvin

Ellis Harper

Booth Colman

Dr. Watson

Lee de Broux

Lujan

James Luisi

George Benson