Fresh
There's every reason to watch Bread and Roses
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Bread and Roses
The Balance of Power Is About to Change
2000 · 1h 50m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Ken Loach
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
65%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Loach treats [the story] as a late-breaking sidebar to a narrative that essentially amounts to a tract on the glories of unskilled trade unionism.
Susan Stark, Detroit News
Rotten
Isn't a bad movie, just a painfully obvious one.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
As didactic as it sometimes gets, its heart is always bigger than its ideology.
Jay Carr, Boston Globe
Rotten
Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty draw everything in simplistic, overstated terms.
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
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