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"The Balance of Power Is About to Change". 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.
Movie rating: 7.0 / 10 (6164)
Directed by: Paul Laverty - Ken Loach
Writer credits: Paul Laverty
Cast: Pilar Padilla - Adrien Brody - Elpidia Carrillo - Jack McGee - Monica Rivas
AKA: Du pain et des roses, Pan y rosas, Bread & Roses, Bröd och rosor
