Bread and Roses
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers’ union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its “justice for janitors” campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she’s also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bradley Morris, Ken Loach, Ricardo Méndez Matta, Sharon Swab, Susanna Lenton
Actors: Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Frankie Davila, George Lopez, Jack McGee, Lillian Hurst, Maria Orellana, Melody Garrett, Monica Rivas, Pilar Padilla
