Made in Dagenham

[danny_galaga]

I like to go and see movies whenever I can. Quite often without even knowing what the movie is about (my best surprise to date would have to be Clerks). I went and saw this movie last night, purely on the strength of the Ford Cortina MkII (which happens to be my first car) on the movie poster! Anyway, this is a great flick about how women finally got equal pay. Set in 1968, the machinists (people who make the upholstery, all women) walk off the job.

Bob Hoskins is great in his supporting role. And Sally Hawkins ( I don't think I've seen her in anything else) was brilliant as the reluctant leader of a protest movement.

All the characters, except for the Prime minister Harold Wison and Secretary of Employment Barbara Castle (played by Miranda Richardson; Queen Elizebeth in Black Adder) all the characters were essentially fictitious. This takes my score down a little. But you know, it was bloody good fun even if it characters in it didn't exist!

And an education too. I mean, I vaguely knew that women didn't have equal pay some time in the past. But to think they only got equal pay around the time I was born...

4/5 Dagenham Dustbins