Movie
North Country
Adaptation film with a runtime of 126 minutes, released in 2005. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
A fictionalized account of one of America's most groundbreaking sexual harassment lawsuits comes to the screen in this hard-hitting drama. In the late '80s, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) fled her abusive husband, and needed to find a way to support her two children. Aimes returned to her hometown in Minnesota and followed the lead of her old friend Glory (Frances McDormand), who had bucked tradition and found a job in the iron mines that had long provided employment for much of the community. Aimes found honest labor and a living wage working the mines, but she also discovered she was working with men who were uncomfortable working with women (whose right to work in the mines had been mandated by law almost 15 years prior), and didn't care to show them much respect. However, as Aimes found herself the growing target of sexist jokes and abhorrent behavior, she found that many of her female co-workers were reluctant to stand beside her, afraid of losing a good-paying job at a time when they were increasingly hard to find. But as a personal crisis became a public war of words, Aimes became the center of a nationwide controversy when she attempted to file a class action sexual harassment suit against the mine owners, which put her and her family in a position of scrutiny beyond her worst expectations. North Country also stars Sean Bean, Sissy Spacek, and Woody Harrelson.
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Cast
- Charlize Theron
- Elle Peterson
- Thomas Curtis
- Frances McDormand
- Sean Bean
- Woody Harrelson
- Jeremy Renner
- Richard Jenkins
- Sissy Spacek
- James Cada
- Rusty Schwimmer
- Linda Emond
- Elizabeth Peterson
- Michelle Monaghan
- Brad William Henke
- Jillian Armenante
- Amber Heard
- John Aylward
- Xander Berkeley
- Corey Stoll
- Cole Williams
- Brad Henke
- Bryan Fagerstrom
- Chris Mulkey
- Aaron Shiver
- Arron Shiver
- Clif Stokes
- J.D. Garfield
- Boots Southerland
- John Hardman
- Forrest Norgaard
- Sage Coy
- Marcus Chait
- Mark Chait
- Dennis E. Garber
- Alex Layton
- Jacqueline Wright
- Catherine Campion
- Tom Bower
- David Lislegard
- Kurt Peterson
- Pete Pellinen
- Bruce Bohne
- Todd Anderson
- Todd Robert Anderson
- Kit Gwin
- Patrick McDowell
- Raye Birk
- Sally Wingert
- Katherine Ferrand
- Curtis Plagge
- Marc Miles
- J.C. Cutler
- Gus Lynch
- Mark Sivertsen
- Rand Kennedy
- Greg Hooper
- William Sarokin
- Michael Seitzman
- Helen Buck Bartlett
- Denise Kum
- Nana Greenwald
- Steve Pederson
- Chris Menges
- Jeff Skoll
- Danny Wynands
- Al Laverde
- Doug Claybourne
- Cindy Evans
- Jeff Schoen
- Gabrielle Petrissans
- Mali Finn
- David Coulson
- John Frick
- Philip Stockton
- Richard Hoover
