BREAD AND ROSES
by Ken Loach
synopsis
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.
international title: | Bread and Roses |
original title: | Bread and Roses |
country: | United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland |
sales agent: | The Sales Company |
year: | 2000 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ken Loach |
film run: | 110' |
release date: | GR 22/09/2000, FR 25/10/2000, BE 29/11/2000, IT 06/12/2000, SE 24/12/2000, BR 25/12/2000, ES 16/02/2001, IS 19/03/2001, NL 12/04/2001, UK 01/04/2001, DE 04/10/2001, AG 25/04/2002 |
screenplay: | Paul Laverty |
cast: | Adrien Brody, Pilar Padilla, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas |
cinematography by: | Barry Ackroyd |
film editing: | Jonathan Morris |
art director: | Martin Johnson |
costumes designer: | Michele Michel |
music: | George Fenton |
producer: | Ulrich Felsberg, Rebecca O'Brien |
production: | Parallax Pictures, Alta Films Producción, BAC Films, La Sept-Arte, Arte (FR), Alta Producción S.L. Unipersonal, Tornasol Films S.A. (ES), BIM (IT), BSkyB, British Screen Productions, FilmFour (UK), Cinart (BE), Degeto Film, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (DE), Filmcoopi Zürich (CH) |
distributor: | Alta Films, Cine 3 (AG), Cinéart (BE), Epix Media (DE), Europa Filmes (BR), Filmcoopi Zürich (CH), Lions Gate Films (US), Mars Distribution (FR) |