Movie: Bread & Roses

Top 10 Billed Cast

Geneviève Picot
Geneviève Picot

Sonja

Mick Rose
Mick Rose

Charlie

Donna Akersten
Donna Akersten

mrs. Mackersey

Raymond Hawthorne
Raymond Hawthorne

Mr. Mackersey

Tina Regtien
Tina Regtien

Con

Erik Thomson
Erik Thomson

Red

Theresa Healey
Theresa Healey

Peggy

Frances Kewene
Frances Kewene

Maisie

Emily Perkins
Emily Perkins

Joan

Larissa Matheson
Larissa Matheson

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    Bread & Roses

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    Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.

  • Release Date

    1993-07-18

  • Average

    8

  • Rating:

    4.0 starts
  • Tagline

    A survivor for whom mere survival was not enough

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  • Languages:

    English
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