Ken Loach
Director
Bread and Roses (2000)
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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Production Companies: Alta Films, Parallax Pictures, Road Movies Filmproduktion GmbH, Tornasol Films
Country: United Kingdom
Production Countries:
Germany,
Spain,
United Kingdom
Languages:
English,
Spanish
69
3.5
Recommendations
Runtime: 110 min.
Released: Sept. 14, 2000
Status: Released
Budget: $5,500,000
Revenue: $706,876
Certification: 18 / 15+