Bread and Roses (movie)
- User score: 6.3
- Production country: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Producer: Ken Loach
- Production companies: Alta Films S.A., Parallax Pictures, Film4 Productions
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Budget: $5,500,000
- Revenue: $706,876
- Release date: 9/14/2000
- Run time: 110 min.
Movie description
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.
