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