Made in Dagenham
Made in Dagenham
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Genre
Comedy, Drama
Director
Nigel Cole
Run time
1h 53min
Cast
Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough, Bob Hoskins, Daniel Mays, Rosamund Pike, Rupert Graves, Miranda Richardson
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. The movie “shows how, at some expense to their family lives, in a country already crippled by strikes, and with a little help from colourful political firebrand Barbara Castle, the Dagenham women managed to overturn an age old hypocrisy”.
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Director
Nigel Cole
Run time
1h 53min
Cast
Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough, Bob Hoskins, Daniel Mays, Rosamund Pike, Rupert Graves, Miranda Richardson
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. The movie “shows how, at some expense to their family lives, in a country already crippled by strikes, and with a little help from colourful political firebrand Barbara Castle, the Dagenham women managed to overturn an age old hypocrisy”.
Info
Rating
For All Audiences
Production year
2010
Global distributor
HanWay Films
Local distributor
Ideals Matter MTÜ
In cinema
9/17/2011