Directed by:
Nigel ColeScreenplay:
William IvoryCinematography:
John de BormanComposer:
David ArnoldCast:
Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone, Nicola Duffett, Geraldine James, Bob Hoskins, Daniel Mays, Roger Lloyd Pack, Phil Cornwell, Robbie Kay (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
Based on a true story, Made in Dagenham portrays a decisive moment in that decade of upheaval, when the fight for equal rights and pay was led - unexpectedly - by ordinary working-class women with one foot in the kitchen, one foot on the factory floor, and ears glued to the pop coming over the radio and telly from far-off London (19 kilometers and a world away). It‘s a vintage-girl power tale.
Rita O‘Grady (Sally Hawkins, who played the tirelessly cheery heroine of Happy- Go-Lucky) is a young married mother, one of 187 women who work for the Ford Motor Company, the region‘s principal employer. Unlike their male counterparts in the automaker‘s gleaming new main facility, the women toil in a decrepit old 1920s plant with a leaky roof, pigeons flying overhead, and stifling sweatshop conditions in summer. Despite their highly specialized work sewing car seat upholstery, the women are classified as unskilled labor and paid a fraction of the men‘s pay. After all, it‘s still a world where husbands - like Rita‘s man Eddie (Danny Mays) - are the principal breadwinners, and women are the backbone of the home and family. Their work and wages are secondary.
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Soundtracks
Made in Dagenham
Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
Label: Universal UK
Year: 2010
Country: UK
Format: CD
Length: 45:42
| 1. | "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me" - Sandie Shaw | 02:44 | |
| 2. | "Get Ready" - The Temptations | 02:37 | |
| 3. | "Israelites" - Desmond Dekker & The Aces | 02:47 | |
| 4. | "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" - James Brown | 02:46 | |
| 5. | "Days" - The Kinks | 02:52 | |
| 6. | "Can I Get A Witness" - Dusty Springfield | 02:43 | |
| 7. | "All Or Nothing" - Small Faces | 03:02 | |
| 8. | "It's Getting Better" - Mama Cass | 03:00 | |
| 9. | "A Groovy Kind Of Love" - The Mindbenders | 01:59 | |
| 10. | "Wooly Bully" - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs | 02:20 | |
| 11. | "Sunday Will Never Be The Same" - Spanky & Our Gang | 02:56 | |
| 12. | "Green Tambourine" - The Lemon Pipers | 02:24 | |
| 13. | "Paper Sun" - Traffic | 03:23 | |
| 14. | "Friday On My Mind" - The Easybeats | 02:32 | |
| 15. | "With A Girl Like You" - The Troggs | 02:08 | |
| 16. | "You Can Get It If You Really Want" - Desmond Dekker | 02:37 | |
| 17. | "Made In Dagenham" - Sandie Shaw | 02:52 |