A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.
While the magical folkloric elements of Whale Rider may be its most immediately striking factor, the depth of feeling invested by Niki Caro in the bonds between characters holds the movie together. Finely etched bonds -- linking couples, family, community -- also supply the heart of the New Zealand director's first American feature, North Country. A stirring drama about a groundbreaking class action sexual harassment suit, pic indulges in movie-ish manipulation in its climactic courtroom scenes. But it remains an emotionally potent story told with great dignity, to which women especially will respond, giving Warner very solid footing among the fourth-quarter quality r...
At its best, North Country conveys what it's like to be a small-town social pariah and to fear for yourself in the workplace. It even says a little something about the refuge and sanctity of a neighborhood tavern.
Moldy bars, at least, are in out of the cold, and this is a movie in which a frigid locale is important. Based on a landmark sexual-harassment class-action suit, Country deals with female workers who take much, much worse than sass in a Minnesota iron mine. And when they exit the plant after a terrible day at work, what do they see? Snow and their breath.
This is Charlize Theron's first major big-screen role since winning an Oscar for Monst...
What Hollywood gives, Hollywood takes away. Studio filmmaking can make an event as fantastical as an alien invasion look like reality, and it can make something that actually took place feel as fake as crocodile tears. Which is what happens with North Country.
Though this story of the sexual harassment class-action lawsuit that changed the lives of American working women is careful to say it is no more than "inspired by" the real-life situation, if there hadn't been a reality (detailed in Class Action, Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler's excellent book) there would be nothing to film.
But to see this overly schematic movie, directed by Wha...
Loosely based on the facts surrounding a real-life sexual harassment case that changed legal history, this powerful drama follows Josey Aimes (Theron), a world-weary working-class woman who's finally found the strength to leave her abusive husband and move back to her hometown, along with her two children. She finds a place to stay with her parents, who expect her to forgive and forget what her husband has done, but Josey instead wants to fend for herself and decides to get a job in the same iron mine as her father.
Legally required to employ a small quota of women, the mine is a tough, brutal environment, and with jobs scarce, the female workers are regarded as...
North Country
NORTH COUNTRY conveys what it's like to be a small-town social pariah and to fear for yourself in the workplace. It even says a little something about the refuge and sanctity of a neighborhood tavern.
i loved this movie that i just want to buy it
defenitely worth watching 5/5 from me
it was sad, in some parts, but it was a great movie
Charlize was awesome!! ;)
This is pretty sad story, based on a true story.. It's got a great cast.. North Country is about a woman's crusade against a company that allowed sexual harrassment to blantly take place.. Good for a one time watch.. 4/5..
This was an excellent movie on womens rights, and one of the first sexual harrassment cases, and she is a champ. Love the twist in it too, Very good movie..
