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Where was Bread and Roses filmed?

2001 film, directed by Ken Loach.

  • San Diego

The story is set in Mexico, about 1,142 miles (1,837 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Mexico; Los Angeles
Filmed in
San Diego
Distance
About 1,142 miles (1,837 km) between Mexico and the nearest filming location.
Distance
About 112 miles (179 km) between Los Angeles and the nearest filming location.
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About Bread and Roses

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Released
2001
Director
Ken Loach
Cast
Adrien BrodyElpidia CarrilloJack McGeeLillian HurstGeorge LopezTim RothRon PerlmanWilliam AthertonVanessa AngelBenicio del Toro
Genre
Drama

Maya, a recently arrived undocumented immigrant in Los Angeles, is eager to build a new life away from her old one, where she briefly worked in a bar.

She desires to work in a high-rise building as a janitor alongside her sister Rosa.

Once employed, Maya discovers the stark disparity in wages and working conditions that the janitors, many of them immigrants, face daily.

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