Rate: Bread and Roses
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[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 155
Released: 2000-09-14
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Budget: 5500000
Revenue 706876
Studios: Alta Films S.A., Parallax Pictures, Film4 Productions,
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.