Norma Rae
1979 · 110 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 13,293 VOTES · DIR. Martin Ritt
Overview
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,198 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:25 ("lt Goes Like lt Goes" by Jennifer Warnes)
00:08:03 buy myself some Kotex pads and a Cosmopolitan magazine.
00:12:01 Didn't you get your box of pralines?
00:15:40 But l'll tell ya, every once in a while someone opens up their door to me
00:18:56 - What's your name? - My name?
00:24:42 I'm always fine. I'm a horse.
00:29:07 You used to come in my mama's bakery.
00:32:44 - Reuben is a union man. - Mm-hm.
00:37:19 Linette?
00:42:04 If you could help me...
00:46:53 Hey!
00:51:34 You're messing with a contempt citation. If you're hot for jail, you just keep it up.
00:56:11 Come on, Wayne. Lemme pin this old thing on you.
01:00:52 If the union is what everybody believes in it, l'll follow all the way.
01:04:59 - Hey, Robert! - Hi, Norma!
01:08:45 this is Norma Rae Webster, and l'm talkin' union to Henry Willis. I'm on tonight and every night.
01:13:01 I guess so.
01:18:28 Mavis.
01:22:24 You've had my reports. You know what l'm up against.
01:27:02 "..do-min-ate... it...
01:31:02 It's gonna take you, and the police department
01:39:09 Come on in the living room.
01:44:22 gettin' old.
01:54:10 Visiontext Subtitles: Kerrie Slavin
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,198
Dialogue density10.9 lines / min
First line00:00:25
Final line01:54:10
Production Record
DirectorMartin Ritt
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4,500,000
Revenue$22,228,000
IMDb votes13,293