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 9:26 AM
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Criticwire: B-
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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]

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Big Screen | This Week's Top 5: IDFA, Claire Denis, "Made in Dagenham" and More

Each week here at indieWIRE, five recommendations for theatrical viewing pleasure are being offered up, tackling everything from new releases, to film festivals, to curated series, and events around North America. This week, a doc fest giant, Claire Denis and "Harry Potter" are among those making up...
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REVIEW | Root for the Cause, Not the Product: "Made in Dagenham"

The best scenes of "Made in Dagenham" run alongside the end credits. After two hours of a fictionalized take on the 1968 Ford machinists strike, when British women lashed out at the company's unequal payment policies, the real survivors of the protest get a chance to speak up. Recalling their decisi...
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Interviews

Ladies Man: "Made in Dagenham" Director Nigel Cole

It appears that director Nigel Cole has a thing for the ladies. A Brit best known for helming "Saving Grace," a precursor to "Weeds" that stars Blenda Blethyn as a small-town English widow who turns to growing marijuana to pay her bills, and "Calendar Girls," the true story of a group of Yorkshire w...
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Miranda Richardson: "It's the best business in the world; to be part of storytelling."

In "Made in Dagenham," Nigel Cole's uplifting true account of the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike, British stage and screen vet Miranda Richardson embodies famous redhead and British Secretary of State for Employment Barbara Castle. In typical fashion for the Oscar-nominee, Richardson rips into t...
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