A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Charlize Theron Elle Peterson Frances McDormand Woody Harrelson Sean Bean Amber Heard Jeremy Renner Richard Jenkins Sissy Spacek Thomas Curtis James Cada Rusty Schwimmer Linda Emond Michelle Monaghan Brad William Henke Jillian Armenante Corey Stoll Bruce Bohne Chris Mulkey Xander Berkeley Catherine Campion
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Ugh. These men are pigs!
Charlize Theron is such a versatile actress. Nothing is too much of a stretch for her it seems, and she carries North Country wonderfully well. Frances McDormand plays a blinder too, Jeremy Renner is at his fantastically awful best and Sean Bean made it through to the end without being exploded, beheaded or otherwise skewered. That made a pleasant change.
The film tells the fictionalised story of the first successful major sexual harassment case in the US: Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines. Josey Aimes, played by Theron takes on the mining company after an extended and disgusting sequence of harassment events aimed at her and her female colleagues since starting as employees at the mine.
Theron's…
I've said it once and I'll say it again - Charlize Theron is an extraordinary actress, and she will be winning trophies for the rest of her acting career.
But this, dear friend, is not her movie.
Oh, don’t get me wrong - “North Country” is a wonderful film, and Theron carries it beautifully. It has a great story, some surprising twists I didn’t see coming, and some very strong supportive work by the great Frances McDormand and Sean Bean, among others.
So, no, it’s doesn’t belong to Theron, or the great Frances, or the screenwriters.
It belongs to Richard Jenkins, the venerable character actor who appeared in 70 movies and TV shows over the last 20 years. Here, he’s given his juiciest movie role to date, and he runs away with it. Someone, for the love of all things cinematical, give this man an Oscar.
My favorite theatrical Lifetime movie
In all honesty, despite some flaws it's really a solid movie about an important topic that unfortunately still revenants today. Check it out if you haven't yet
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.
North Country is the type of movie that can be emotionally draining, not in the same fashion of Grave of the fireflies or other movies that are hard to watch because they are depressing, but in that it makes you, at least in my case, angry and thats what it wants to do. The movie shows you people not only taking part but also, in more than one way, defending behaviors and mentalities that are not only disgusting…
Charlize Theron plays a woman who reveals her son is from a rape while she's on the stand in a harassment class action suit against her iron-mine place of employment. Woody Harrelson as her lawyer & Sean Bean as another good guy have decent performances, yet essentially it's just a fairly bland 'me too' harassment trial drama. Be it as it may, this fairly bland trial drama does tell an important story, so it may be worth a watch to some folks.
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North Country is inspired by the life of Lois Jenson, who was just one of the minority female workforce at the strip mines of the Mesabi Iron Range, and who made American history when she filed the first class action lawsuit for sexual harassment.
For the film, Jenson becomes Josie Aimes, played superbly by Charlize Theron. I don't think enough is made of Theron's talents. She's a very attractive woman who never relies on her looks, preferring instead to tackle powerful dramas and unglamourous characters than the frothy romcoms her similarly photogenic contemporaries prefer to paddle around in. The time will come when Theron is spoken of in the same way that Meryl Streep is currently revered, which is kind…
pigs* finally being exposed by women who are done taking their shit......*chef's kiss*
*no offense to actual animal pigs....y'all are cute and innocent and ily.
i love charlize theron so much. she's an extraordinary actress, amazing, beautiful, talented and she has saved my life AGAIN. also FRANCES MCDORMAND!!!!!! SPEECHLESS
Excellent performances by Charlize Theron and Frances Mcdormand somewhat undercut as the film devolves into a standard courtroom drama.
First off, I really liked ‘North Country’, but if I want to write an honest review I can’t really fail to mention that it has a dramatic climax that is quite schmaltzy and in which things gradually stop being believable, even despite the knowledge of its being based on real events. This is particularly annoying because the main part of the film is so well handled. Yes, it’s quite predictable and ticks all the right boxes in quite a broad way, but it’s actually surprisingly nuanced despite this and there’s a notable absence of grandstanding or sensationalism. It has an important story to tell, which in the wrong hands may have felt trivial, and tells it with passion and sincerity…
