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.
(Transmission Films)
Cast
![Marysia Kay](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/346/160346613_f35fa6.jpg)
Marysia Kay
UK
Best movies:
Cashback (2006)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Stella Does Tricks (1996)
![Gina Bramhill](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/109/309/109309461_3c4e00.jpg)
Gina Bramhill
UK
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Endeavour (2012) (series)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
![Matthew Aubrey](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/752/162752893_9e0e27.jpg)
Matthew Aubrey
Best movies:
Birdsong (2012) (TV movie)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
The Sinking of the Laconia (2010) (TV movie)
Rich Keeble
Best movies:
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
King of Thieves (2018)
Denis Gilmore
UK
Best movies:
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Donna Griffiths
Best movies:
One Chance (2013)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Svengali (2013)
![Simon Armstrong](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/669/161669051_583a54.jpg)
Simon Armstrong
Best movies:
The Last Hangman (2005)
Remi, Nobody's Boy (2018)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Mitchell Mullen
Best movies:
Harley and the Davidsons (2016) (series)
About Time (2013)
A Good Year (2006)
![Miles Jupp](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/180/163180284_ce70fb.jpg)
Miles Jupp
UK
Best movies:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
![Simon Nehan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/760/160760284_98a6dc.jpg)
Simon Nehan
Best movies:
Birdsong (2012) (TV movie)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Svengali (2013)
William Ivory
UK
Best movies:
Care (2000) (TV movie)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Mick Slaney
Best movies:
One Chance (2013)
X+Y (2014)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Marcus Hutton
UK
Best movies:
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Saint Maud (2019)
Diana: Her True Story (1993) (TV movie)
Nico Tatarowicz
UK
Best movies:
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Darren Hammock
Best movies:
Now Is Good (2012)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Burke and Hare (2010)
Rose Romain
Best movies:
The Duchess (2008)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Lorraine Stanley
UK
Best movies:
Eden Lake (2008)
Cass (2008)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Cara Bamford
Best movies:
Persuasion (2007) (TV movie)
We Want Sex Equality (2010)
Housefull (2010)