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Bread and Roses (2000 film)

Bread and Roses
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Bread and Roses poster
Directed by Ken Loach
Produced by Rebecca O'Brien
Written by Paul Laverty
Starring Pilar Padilla
Adrien Brody
Elpidia Carrillo
Music by George Fenton
Cinematography Barry Ackroyd
Edited by Jonathan Morris
Production
company
Distributed by Alta Films (Spain)
Lionsgate (US)
Release date
  • 10 May 2000 (2000-05-10) (CFF)

  • 11 May 2001 (2001-05-11) (US: limited)
Running time
110 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
Language English
Spanish
Box office $533,479

Bread and Roses is a 2000 film directed by Ken Loach, starring Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody and Elpidia Carrillo. The plot deals with the struggle of poorly paid janitorial workers in Los Angeles and their fight for better working conditions and the right to unionize. It is based on the "Justice for Janitors" campaign of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

The film is critical of inequalities in the United States. Health insurance in particular is highlighted and it is also stated in the film that the pay of cleaners and other low paying jobs has declined in recent years.

The film's name, "Bread and Roses", derives from the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Though the phrase comes from a 1911 poem by James Oppenheim (which was, in turn, based on a speech given by Rose Schneiderman), it is commonly associated with the Lawrence strike, which united dozens of immigrant communities, led to a large extent by women, under the leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World.

The following companies produced the film:

The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Award at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival in 2000.


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