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Bread and Roses (2001)

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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 62
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 22

Bread and Roses has powerful moments, but it also sometimes descends into preachiness.

Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 6

Bread and Roses has powerful moments, but it also sometimes descends into preachiness.

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Leftist filmmaker Ken Loach directs this grim drama about the plight of seemingly invisible office cleaners in contemporary L.A. who often earn as little as $6 a day without benefits. The film opens as Maya (Pilar Padilla), a young Mexican lass, is reuniting with her older sister Rosa (Elpidia Carrilio) in L.A. after a harrowing cross-border journey. Rosa sets her sister up first with a job as a barmaid, which Maya soon quits after getting repeatedly groped -- and then as a janitor. When her

R, 1 hr. 50 min.

Drama

Directed By: Ken Loach

Written By: Paul Laverty

In Theaters: May 11, 2001 Limited

On DVD: Nov 27, 2001

Lions Gate Releasing

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Critic Reviews for Bread and Roses

All Critics (74) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (22) | DVD (3)

There's every reason to watch Bread and Roses

July 12, 2001 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

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Loach treats [the story] as a late-breaking sidebar to a narrative that essentially amounts to a tract on the glories of unskilled trade unionism.

June 22, 2001 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Susan Stark

Detroit News

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Isn't a bad movie, just a painfully obvious one.

June 22, 2001 Comment

Terry Lawson

Detroit Free Press

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Loach ... has made his most appealing and involving movie to date with the touching, naturalistic Bread and Roses.

June 18, 2001 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

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As didactic as it sometimes gets, its heart is always bigger than its ideology.

June 15, 2001 Comment

Jay Carr

Boston Globe

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Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty draw everything in simplistic, overstated terms.

June 11, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Edward Guthmann

San Francisco Chronicle

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...less dogmatic and milder than most of Loach's work, with a kind of sweet dignity about it

July 26, 2002 Full Review | Comment

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

It doesn't really succeed in illustrating the workers' plights in a way that is ultimately sympathetic.

March 5, 2002 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com

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Jeremy Heilman

MovieMartyr.com

At times "Bread and Roses" looks disingenuous...

December 6, 2001 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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... the actual execution unfortunately doesn't carry the full dramatic weight the movie makers believe.

December 4, 2001 Full Review Source: Baseline.Hollywood.com

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Ted Murphy

Baseline.Hollywood.com

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Bread and Roses, another movie directed by Ken Loach, only this time he used American location.It felt strange as he was used to present Irish, English or Scottish locations.A young Mexican girl Maya, living the American dream,working and living in the USA came over very believable. Adrien Brody, did an excellent job,

March 29, 2010

Daisy Maduro

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I only watched this becuase Adrien Brody came out. The lead actress just wasn't interesting to me. I didn't care about her character's plight. It seemed to me like she made some really dumb mistakes. I didn't find anything in her character to root for. I thought the "love story" was weak. meh.

March 29, 2009