Sally Hawkins squeezes her skinny bod and zippy charm into bouffant-haired Rita O’Grady, a shy Ford-plant worker who rallied her English, female colleagues (aided by a union steward, played by Bob Hoskins) to demand equal pay. Their daring, 1968 strike shook up Britain and Detroit. Although Nigel Cole’s movie forklifts the story into place mechanically and “feminizes” it with soapy touches, there is some inherent and engaging fascination. With fine work by Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson. (2010) — David Elliott
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