Bread and Roses(2000)

🎬110 min
📅2000-09-14
🎭Comedy, Drama
6.3/10

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.

Production

Parallax Pictures, Road Movies, Tornasol Media, Alta Films

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Cast

Pilar Padilla
as Maya
Adrien Brody
as Sam Shapiro
Jack McGee
as Bert
Monica Rivas
as Simona
Frankie Davila
as Luis
Lillian Hurst
as Anna
Maria Orellana
as Berta
Melody Garrett
as Cynthia
Elpidia Carrillo
as Rosa
George Lopez
as Perez