Adrien Brody,
Elpidia Carrillo,
Frankie Davila,
George Lopez,
Jack McGee
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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 a... read more
DVD Release Date: November 27, 2001
Stats: 167 reviews
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 believab... read more
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" ... read more
Repressing proletarians,oh you Loach.A political innovator of cinematic beauty and justice,Loach stumbles upon the U.S. disorder which is obviously a great matter to develop in a feature film.The lighthearted approach is confusing to say the least and impeccably incoherent.The we... read more
I could imagine this film being put together by a bunch of ineffective political activists daydreaming about getting even with "the man." I wonder if there was even a script initially or whether they just winged it scene by scene.
Maybe not, but that was definitely the feel of ... read more
Good story. Adrien was so funny and is such a great character actor. He makes any movie he's in better.
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. Full Review
Isn't a bad movie, just a painfully obvious one.
Loach ... has made his most appealing and involving movie to date with the touching, naturalistic Bread and Roses. Full Review
As didactic as it sometimes gets, its heart is always bigger than its ideology.
Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty draw everything in simplistic, overstated terms. Full Review
There are many intimate scenes that make the characters of Sam, Rosa and Maya very personal. Full Review
The problem with Ken Loach's half-Spanish, half-English film isn't the lefty politics, it's that the Brit knows nothing about Los Angeles. Full Review
A stirring and thought-provoking look at some uncomfortable truths that most Americans ignore. Full Review
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