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Bread and Roses

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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Box Office

Budget: $5,500,000
Revenue: $706,876
ROI: -87.1%

Verdict: Flop

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Crew

Directors

> Ken Loach (Director)
> Bradley Morris (Second Second Assistant Director)
> Ricardo Méndez Matta (First Assistant Director)
> Sharon Swab (Second Assistant Director)
> Barry Ackroyd (Director of Photography)

Writers

> Paul Laverty (Writer)