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Genres:
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Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Ken Loach
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Actors:
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Elpidia Carrillo,
Lillian Hurst,
Eloy Méndez,
Monica Rivas,
Frankie Davila,
Mayron Payes,
Maria Orellana,
Melody Garrett,
Gigi Jackman,
Beverly Reynolds,
Elena Antonenko,
Olga Gorelik,
Pilar Padilla,
Adrien Brody,
Jack McGee
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Duration:
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106 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)95.5
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Plot Summary:
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The left-leaning Ken Loach, who has spent his employment focusing on the struggles of the poor and working classes of Great Britain, shifts his view-finder to the stomp of a coalition of office-cleaners, unseen in the glittering City of Angels. Loosely based on a 1990 janitor's lambaste at Century City, the events are seen as a consequence the eyes of Maya (Pilar Padilla) a inexperienced Latina, who hopes only to find produce in the Opinion States. Through her sister, Rosa (Elpidia Carrillo), she gets a job at an office-cleaning company, whose largely Latino resolve duress labors without benef... its for $5.75 hour. Since sundry of the workers are undocumented aliens, they continue in constant apprehensiveness of their brutal boss, Perez (George Lopez). Even so, the advent of union organizer Sam (Adrien Brody) is hardly greeted with elation by way of the workers, who know how easily they could be fired were they initiate at a union meeting. Yet, as the workers deliberation the risks and rewards of joining the confederacy, Maya finds herself to drawn to the humorous, but intensely dedicated Sam, whose professedly whimsical tactics certify to be surprisingly effective. In defiance of his clean belief in the importance of the gang, Loach's sensitivity won't make allowance him to scant the complexities of the lives of his characters, a quality best expressed in Rosa's disturbing final exposure. The entertainment lawyer's sect features cameos sooner than a number of stars, including William Atherton, Ron Perlman, Stephanie Zimbalist, Benicio Del Toro, and Tim Roth.
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Moving and Inspirational
In this film Loach does what he does best, provide inspiration through his gritty realism and analysis of a particular social ill. The acting in this film, particularly from the women that form the janitors is really excellent and sometimes it feels like a documentary but with the sunshine of LA.
Comedy on the Picket Line
Bread & Roses is a slogan from the American trade union movement of the early twentieth century. Instead of recreating the events of that period, Ken Loach and his team have produced a funny, modern trade union drama. As with the events of the orginal Bread and Roses stikes, the strikers were immigrants and mostly women.
Whether you agree with the politics of the director or not, on a basic level this film is entertaining, and shows the director and his team have a sympathetic attitude towards social injustice.
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