Synopsis

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.
Ken Loach, Bradley Morris, Ricardo Méndez Matta, Sharon Swab, Susanna Lenton
Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas, Frankie Davila, Lillian Hurst, Maria Orellana, Melody Garrett, Elpidia Carrillo, George Lopez, Rosa Ayala, Mayron Payes, Blake Clark, Gigi Jackman, Beverly Reynolds, Eloy Méndez, Elena Antonenko, Olga Gorelik, Estela Maeda, Sherman Augustus, Roscio Saenz, Pepe Serna, Tony Rizzoli, Tom Gilroy, Jesus Perez, Benicio del Toro, Samuel West, Tim Roth, Vanessa Angel, William Atherton, Lara Belmont, Cooper Campbell, Oded Fehr, Gary Fredo, Stuart Gordon, Rick Otto, Chris Penn, Ron Perlman, Robin Tunney
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