Made in Dagenham

• Director: Nigel Cole
• Writer: Billy Ivory
• Cast: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough
• Theatrical Release Date: November 19, 2010
• Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
• Criticwire: B-
• On The Web IMDB Entry

Synopsis: 1968 Rita lives in Dagenham and, like many local women, she works at the Ford plant stitching together seat covers. It's intricate work carried out in sweltering conditions. So why, she wonders, are the workers paid the same as unskilled labourers? Is it because the work is unskilled? Or is it in fact because they are women? "Made in Dagenham" shows how, at some expense to their family lives, in a country already crippled by strikes, and with a little help from colourful political firebrand Barbara Castle, the Dagenham women managed to overturn an age old hypocrisy. [Synopsis courtesy of BBC Films]