See clips from Sony Pictures Classics' "Made in Dagenham" starring Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson, Bob Hoskins
Sally Hawkins, Jaime Winstone, Rupert Graves, Richard Schiff, Geraldine James, Robbie Kay and Daniel Mays.
The film makes its world premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival and is helmed by Nigel Cole ("A Lot Like Love," "Calendar Girls") from the writing by Billy Ivory.
When we think of „60s revolutionaries, the women of Dagenham don?t fit the clichés – but these feisty, funny factory girls shook their world with spirit and courage, and achieved lasting social change (yes, even the grannies were “girls” to the men of Ford management and their own labor union).
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...read more!