Based on the true story of the 1968 Ford manufacturer women’s strike, Made in Dagenham follows Rita O’Grady (Sally Hawkins) and her fellow machinists as they prepare to strike in protest for equal pay for women.
Starring Bob Hoskins as the union rep and the only man on the women’s side, the strike begins to slow down production of the cars and eventually brings the company to a standstill as women from the other factories join the protest, forcing the men to stop working.
With the strike beginning to affect the families and children of the women, this films shows that to achieve something you truly believe in, sacrifices have to be made to allow progress to begin.
I’m glad I’ve seen this film as there was a lot of publicity around it when it was first released and I wanted to see if it lived up to all the hype. But ultimately it fell flat of becoming a great British film that cements itself in the ‘must see’ category. I found the subject of the film didn’t reach the climax it deserved and after so long it seemed the characters were just filing up the time until the end. Unfortunately I was bored for most of the film and was glad when it ended and I could switch it off.
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