| Cast: |
SALLY HAWKINS (An Education, Happy-Go-Lucky, Vera Drake, The Painted Veil, All or Nothing)
MIRANDA RICHARDSON (The Young Victoria, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Hours, Sleepy Hollow, Spider, The Crying Game)
BOB HOSKINS (Mrs Henderson Presents, Beyond the Sea, Enemy at the Gates, Hook, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa)
DANIEL MAYS (Red Riding, Hippie Hippie Shake, Shifty, Atonement, Vera Drake)
ROSAMUND PIKE (An Education, Pride & Prejudice, The Libertine, Die Another Day)
GERALDINE JAMES (Fever, Calendar Girls, Band of Gold)
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH (Love You More, Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley, The Devil’s Whore)
JAIME WINSTONE (Donkey Punch, Kidulthood, Bullet Boy) |
| Synopsis: |
Working in extremely impoverished conditions and for long arduous hours, the women at the Ford Dagenham plant finally down tools in 1968 when they are reclassified as "unskilled". With humour, common sense and courage they take on their U.S. 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 whose fiery temper and occasionally hilarious unpredictability proves to be a match for any of her male opponents.
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