Bread and Roses

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• Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Ken Loach
• Cast(s): Adrien Brody, Jack McGee, Lillian Hurst, Elpidia Carrillo, George Lopez See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 50min
• Award(s): ALMA 2002 (Won)
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• Similar To: One Battle After Another, Sorry, Baby
• Story:
  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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