Bread and Roses Movie

Bread and Roses
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Run Time: 110 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 2000
Directors: Ken Loach
Genre/Type: Drama
Urban Drama
Social Problem Film
Producers: Rebecca O'Brien
Plot Synopsis by Jonathan Crow
Leftist filmmaker Ken Loach directs this grim drama about the plight of seemingly invisible office cleaners in contemporary L.A. who often earn as little as $6 a day without benefits. The film opens as Maya (Pilar Padilla), a young Mexican lass, is reuniting with her older sister Rosa (Elpidia Carrilio) in L.A. after a harrowing cross-border journey. Rosa sets her sister up first with a job as a barmaid, which Maya soon quits after getting repeatedly groped -- and then as a janitor. When her boss demands one month's salary as "commission," Maya happens upon Sam Shapiro (Adrien Brody), a muckraking lawyer and union agitator. This film, which was screened in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, is remarkable for its prescience -- it was shown a month after a massive janitor's strike ground L.A.'s business community to a halt.

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Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize. full summary | add synopsis
started january 12th, ended march 14th, 1912 they won a 25% raise for lower paid workers and a smaller increase for higher paid workers.
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Actors Character Born
Adrien Brody Sam Apr 14, 1973 in New York, NY
Elpidia Carrillo Rosa
Frankie DaVila Luis
George Lopez Perez Apr 23, 1961 in Mission Hills, CA
Jack McGee Bert
Ron Perlman Himself Apr 13, 1950 in New York City, NY

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Zip Code: 10010 · Provider: Verizon Fios Freehold NY Plus-Digital (Jersey City) Edit
Sun , 2:00 PM ET · Bread and Roses  · Channel 428 · WOMAX · Duration: 120 min.
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