113 min - Comedy Cast
Storyline
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.Taglines:
1968. It's a man's world. But not for long...Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for language and brief sexuality.Details
Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
2 September 2010 (Netherlands)Filming Locations:
Eastbourne Pier, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UKBox Office
Budget:
$7,200,000 (estimated)Company Credits
Production Co:
BBC Films, Number 9 FilmsTechnical Specs
Runtime:
113 minSound Mix:
Dolby DigitalColor:
ColorAspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1Fun Facts
Trivia
Sandie Shaw who sang the film's title song used to work as a punched-card operator in the Ford plant at Dagenham several years before the events depicted in the film.Goofs
Anachronisms: The Mark 1 Cortinas shown as being manufactured in new and archive footage ceased production two years earlier in 1966, when the squarer Mk 2 was introduced.Quotes
Barbara Castle: I am what is known as a fiery redhead. Now, I hate to make this a matter of appearance and go all womanly on you, but there you have it. And me standing up like this is in fact just that redheaded fieriness leaping to the fore. Credence? I will give credence to their cause...Soundtracks
"All Or Nothing"Written by Marriott / Lane
Performed by Small Faces
Published by Aviation Music Limited Courtesy of The Decca Music Group
Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd
User Reviews
Superbly written and performed, a true tale for our tough times Made in Dagenham has brilliantly broken the mould. It combines the clear, explicit and nuanced politics of the best of Ken Loach with the heart-grabbing attractions of any mainstream popular film you care to name. The brilliant scene where Sally Hawkin's modest and unpractised union rep spells out why the job she does is skilled is a metaphor for the whole movie. Politics isn't hard to understand – it's our lives, stupid! I cannot think of a previous British film with a mainstream aesthetic that has had the guts before to put the ordinary workers' point of view so wholeheartedly at its centre. But this is no simplistic idealised narrative. Going on strike, as the women find, makes you very unpopular, not least with the very people you'd thought would support you – the Union leadership and your fellow (male) workers. Nothing is a cinch, nothing too easily won and Sally Hawkins brilliantly portrays the thorny predicament of the figurehead of the struggle beginning to doubt her own single-mindedness and how much it's costing not just her family but the entire town (and possibly the UK's) working community. Made in Dagenham shows a true story in a truthful, thoroughly engaging way. There is not one bum note in any of the performances – from Kenneth Cranham's sleazily compromised Union official, to Rosamund Pike's surprisingly moving posh wife, to Jamie Winstone's wannabe model – everybody has a committed credibility without ever being worthy or cloying and Sally Hawkins (with a startling look of the young Rita Tushingham) plays a richly layered blinder in the central role. Huge hats off to the writer Billy Ivory who has written a bright, funny, completely unpatronising and clever script. And a big, big thank you to producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen for the guts to get right inside the truth of this big, big story that started in a little place.
