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  • 2001
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2001
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 50 m

Summary In chronicling the experiences of Maya, a young Mexican woman who crosses the border illegally and must fend for herself in contemporary Los Angeles, director Ken Loach takes an individual's personal and professional struggle and builds it into a moving portrait of one of our nation's most troubled -- and least visible -- communities. (...

Directed By: Ken Loach

Written By: Paul Laverty

  • 2001
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2001
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 50 m

Bread and Roses

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary In chronicling the experiences of Maya, a young Mexican woman who crosses the border illegally and must fend for herself in contemporary Los Angeles, director Ken Loach takes an individual's personal and professional struggle and builds it into a moving portrait of one of our nation's most troubled -- and least visible -- communities. (...

Directed By: Ken Loach

Written By: Paul Laverty

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
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16% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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58% Positive
11 Reviews
26% Mixed
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16% Negative
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The film is never less than a satisfying mix of compelling entertainment and social critique. The performances are uniformly superb.
By Kevin Maynard FULL REVIEW
75
The reason Bread and Roses works as well as it does is that as didactic as it sometimes gets, its heart is always bigger than its ideology.
By Jay Carr FULL REVIEW
70
There are scenes here that fill one with rage or bring tears to the eyes.
By John Patterson FULL REVIEW
67
It's a passionate film powered by the righteous anger of injustice.
By Sean Axmaker FULL REVIEW
50
It would be easy to pigeonhole this as "Norma Rae" en L.A., and Padilla is at least as ingratiating and as much of a guy magnet as Sally Field was in that movie.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
40
A genuine consciousness-raiser, but it's less a social-realist narrative than a high-volume rally.
By Jessica Winter FULL REVIEW
25
Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty draw everything in simplistic, overstated terms. The good guys are pure and spunky, the bad guys bellicose and one-dimensional, the conflicts stripped of nuance.
By Edward Guthmann FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Parallax Pictures, ARD Degeto Film, ARTE, Alta Films, Alta Producción, BIM Distribuzione, Bac Films, British Screen Productions, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), Cinart, FilmFour, Filmcoopi, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, La Sept-Arte, Road Movies Filmproduktion, Tornasol Films, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Release Date May 11, 2001
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The Balance Of Power Is About To Change.
Website http://www.filmfour.com/breadandroses/
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Awards

ALMA Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
British Independent Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Political Film Society, USA
• 2 Nominations

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