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 ... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Associated PressDavid GermainIf you want social commentary but absorbing entertainment, gritty realism but fictionalized whimsy, something for the head but something for the heart, too, Bread and Roses delivers. |
| New TimesGregory WeinkaufThe themes here are obvious, and there's very little entertainment value at hand, but until Julie Taymor (or whoever) delivers a Janitors! musical, this is a fine study of the conflict. |
| PopMattersJonathan BeebeDespite its occasional over-simplification, however, Bread and Roses is a powerfully affecting film. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAt times "Bread and Roses" looks disingenuous... |
| Boxoffice MagazineLael LoewensteinA powerful, occasionally didactic but deeply resonant film. |
| Reel.comRod ArmstrongBread and Roses is not just a well-acted and moving drama about the plight of a group of Latino janitors; it's also a wake-up call to get our collective head out of the sand. |
| NewsdayJan StuartYou won't be able to look through cleaning people again as if they were invisible. On that count, it's a godsend. |
| Apollo GuideDan JardineLoach's left-leaning social activism is at the service of a potent and touching story |
| BBC.comDavid WoodAn impassioned work of integrity and a human drama of observation, insight, and great import. |
| Film Journal InternationalMaria GarciaA collection of small, heroic acts that lead the characters and the audience to a greater knowledge of yet another injustice. |
