Made in Dagenham

2010/ UK/ 113mins/ Dir. Nigel Cole
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike, Andrea Riseborough, Jamie Winstone and Daniel Mays.

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It’s 1968, the year of revolution and students are demonstrating the world over. Meanwhile in Dagenham in Essex, as far from the swinging sixties as possible, the Ford motor company is about to face its biggest ever threat, from the unlikeliest of places: the female sewing machinists.

The women down tools when they are reclassified as ‘unskilled’. With humour, common sense and courage they take on their US paymasters, an increasingly belligerent local community and, finally, the government itself to strike an everlasting blow for equal pay for women.

The catalyst for the women’s struggle is fast-talking, no nonsense Rita played by Sally Hawkins, whose fiery temper and occasionally hilarious unpredictability proves to be a match for any of her male opponents.