LILLY Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: LILLY is a powerful dramatic film starring Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson, John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski and directed by Rachel Feldman. Exclusively in theatres on May 9.
When a hard-working Alabama factory supervisor discovers her company has been paying her half of what her male counterparts received for 20 years, she begins a historic fight towards justice. Patricia Clarkson fiercely portrays the remarkable true story fair pay activist Lilly Ledbetter.
When a hard-working Alabama factory supervisor discovers her company has been paying her half of what her male counterparts received for 20 years, she begins a historic fight towards justice. Patricia Clarkson fiercely portrays the remarkable true story fair pay activist Lilly Ledbetter.
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00:00You
00:07Sometimes in life you hit a turning point
00:11Lily you got to be more careful girl, and that was it for me
00:18How long have you worked there
00:22Just shy of 20 years I
00:25Don't understand why you stayed at first it was just shenanigans
00:31I I've got schoolboy nonsense really if you can find me some evidence I
00:38Need substantiation to build you a case well here we go
00:46You sure you're up for this what time you won't leave
00:49Now your income if you include overtime it is half of what the men are making
00:55She was bossy thought she was better than everybody else John wants me to smile
00:59Don't you dare smile these are powerful groups?
01:02We knew that it could go either way you think they should get away with how they treated me no
01:08The partners and I would like to take this to the Supreme Court
01:11That company took advantage of me like so many companies are taking advantage of their workers
01:19If she wins women all over the country are going to use this as an excuse to sue I'm so damn proud of you
01:25Babe, miss Ledbetter was consigned to a career as a second-class employee only because she is a woman that cannot be the law
01:31And it isn't you knew you were being paid less than your male counterparts
01:36You waited to retire before suing you really believe I chose to work 20 years knowing I was being cheated and discriminated against
01:42Just so I could wait to sue does that make any sense
01:45You're not one of them and you never will be you're a country girl who grew up swimming in Doc Brewster's pond, that's right
01:53So I know how to burn off a leech