Bread and Roses (2000) — comedy, drama film. Directed by Ken Loach. Starring Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Jack McGee, Monica Rivas. This page maps 2 characters and 1 relationships between them as an interactive character network. Rated 6.3/10 from 140 votes.
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An undocumented immigrant janitor navigates workplace exploitation and joins a union movement to secure dignity and fair wages.
Comedy, Drama · 6.3/10 · 110 min · 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.
