Bread and Roses

• Movies
• 2000-09-14
• EN
• Released
• 2h 50m
• GB
• Comedy - Drama
• Budget: $5,500,000.00

• 6.3
• 125
• Trailer

Production

Parallax Pictures, Road Movies, Tornasol Media, Alta Films, Bac Films, BiM Distribuzione, Cinéart, Filmkollektiv Zürich AG, Film4 Productions, WDR/Arte, La Sept Cinéma, ARD Degeto, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Tagline

The Balance of Power Is About to Change

Storyline

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.