MADE IN DAGENHAM (2010) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Nigel Cole
Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Geraldine James,
Daniel Mays, Jaime Winstone, Andrea Riseborough,
Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves
When the women machinists at a Ford auto plant in England go on strike to demand equal pay, nobody's unaffected. The company's top guns tell the girls to be reasonable and threaten to close the plant down and move the work elsewhere. The union bosses tell them to be patient and they'll go to bat for them . . . someday. Their male colleagues at the factory learn soon enough that you can't roll cars off the assembly line if nobody's there to stitch the upholstery together. The women are adamant. And united. And pissed off. And before long, the Labour government is paying attention and getting involved. It's not hard to figure out who to root for here. Heck, I'd join Sally Hawkins on a picket line, wouldn't you?
