Norma Rae
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Oct 8, 2026
JeffHOST
Oh, yes.
JizzyHOST
Norma Rae.
JeffHOST
Ah, Sally Field.
JizzyHOST
Sally Field.
JizzyHOST
When she's doing, uh, she's like, he's like, "You-
JeffHOST
That's a classic
JizzyHOST
... you, Norma Rae, you go in there and get that list.
JizzyHOST
You tell me what that letter says.
AdamHOST
So I was just seeing... what Sally had been nominated for and won.
AdamHOST
So she was two for two in 1985 because she was nominated and won for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Norma Rae in 1980 and 1985 Best Actress in a Leading Role for Places in the Heart.
AdamHOST
And then she wasn't nominated again until 2013 for for your favorite Spielberg movie, Lincoln, and was not nominated for this movie at all.
AdamHOST
So I'm like, okay, so what was, um, Julia Roberts was nominated for best supporting, but did not win.
Tim KasherHOST
Norm- Norma...
Tim KasherHOST
Oh my God, what's wrong with me? Norma Rae is a 1979 film about a single mother who takes on a cotton mill for poor work conditions.
Tim KasherHOST
Who won that Oscar for playing Norma- Norma- Norma Rae? I-
Zachary Ray ShermanGUEST
Sally Field.
Tim KasherHOST
It's Sally Field.
Gwynedd StuartHOST
It sure is.
Tim KasherHOST
Yeah, stolen.
Tim KasherHOST
I didn't realize that Norma Rae is, uh, actually really difficult for me to say.
Peter CookHOST
Uh-huh.
Taylor RowleyGUEST
He's in Norma Rae.
Taylor RowleyGUEST
He's fantastic.
Taylor RowleyGUEST
He's the-
Mark T. WeathersbyGUEST
He's great in Norma Rae
Taylor RowleyGUEST
... union organizer in that.
Mark T. WeathersbyGUEST
He's so great in that movie.
Jason SacksHOST
Ooh, wow.
Jason SacksHOST
Mean Streets, Nashville, The Cheap Detective, Stanley & Iris, which is a De Niro film, Norma Rae.
Jason SacksHOST
So he has a, he had a decent career too.
Dan StoryHOST
Looks only, looks like only one Altman though.
Lou LavertyHOST
great.
Lenny ApesosHOST
Norma Rae was also really fun.
Lenny ApesosHOST
I'd never seen it before.
Lenny ApesosHOST
Good time.
Chris FranjolaHOST
That's...
Chris FranjolaHOST
Steve was like Norma Rae over at Chelsea Lilley.
Chris FranjolaHOST
He fought the good fight to get us a union.
Chris FranjolaHOST
We went to WGA.
JohnHOST
Yeah.
JohnHOST
Norma Rae, you'd be crying in your grave, right? And obviously, Cornell does not believe in free speech.
JohnHOST
They may put it on a banner.
JohnHOST
They may put it on a little placard somewhere.
MikeHOST
So the underdog struggle becomes even more compelling when there is a sacrifice to be made by the underdog participant, which is often the case.
MikeHOST
Two real-world examples of our hero having to make a sacrifice include Norma Rae from 1979, the film that won Sally Field her first Oscar.
MikeHOST
Norma Rae is fighting the establishment by trying to establish a union.
MikeHOST
Therefore, this is an individual versus institution story type.
MikeHOST
One of the sacrifices she has to make is being arrested and losing her status in the community, which causes her difficulties at home.
Derek SheenGUEST
Yeah, rest in peace.
Derek SheenGUEST
And I think she plays a union worker in a shop pushing for a higher wage, which is $5.20. It's very Norma, was it Norma
Ken ReidHOST
Rae? Yeah, Norma Rae.
Ken ReidHOST
It's like a TV version of that.
Ken ReidHOST
But I was so disappointed, because obviously that makes sense when you look at what it is, but the title, the $5.20 an hour dream, I was like, what could this be? Like, I was so intrigued by the title.
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