Bread and Roses
2000 · 110 min · Director: Ken Loach
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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.
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Bread and Roses (2000) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Empathy 30%, Inspiration 25%, Anger 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Empathy30%
- Inspiration25%
- Anger20%
- Anxiety15%
- Hope10%
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The strongest emotional signals are Empathy, Inspiration, Anger. Genres: Comedy, Drama. AI estimate.
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Cast
Janitor
Ben
Dolores
Ella
Juan
Maria
Olga
Teresa
Details
- Directed by
- Ken Loach
- Written by
- Paul Laverty
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2000
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Country
- United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Empathy
- Data updated
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