Wonderful Movie

good back-story, and good acting

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This is an important film about more than just Sexual harassment. It is more than a movie about Women. This movie deals with true courage. About the possibility just one person can accomplish!!! It's about taking a stand, and knowing right from wrong!! This movie was very tastefully done. It features a A list cast. With A list acting. It tackles a very important and very necessary message. I'm rather puzzled with some of the reviews. However, to each their own. I found the movie was well acted and well done. I also found the ending to be perfect!!!

This is a well done movie on all counts. Great performances from a bunch of top notch actors down to the smallest of roles. It's based on the true story of a single mother who filed a sexual harassment suit against the owners of a Minnesota mine where she worked in the 80's.Everything has been well executed here from the costumes to the dialogue to how you can feel the cold of Minnesota and the dirty, intimidation of the mine and its boys club. As a woman this is a super frustrating movie to watch, just vile the harassment and conditions that were deemed expectable. There are some really outstanding performances here from Theron, Renner, Jenkins and Frances Mcdormand blew me away. There's also some surprising sub plots involved. Just a super well made movie. I can't imagine being afraid to go to work. 8/21/14

Based on the book "Class action: The story of Lois Jensen and the landmark case that changed sexual harassment Law" by Clara Bingham e Laura Leedy Gansler , North Country (2005) tell us the story of the character Josey Aimes greatly performed by Charlize Theron. Josey is a single mother of two children and she is tired of suffering with her partner. So she decides to return to her parent's house and to remake her life. Returning to Minnesota (USA) Josey can work in the mines, but something wrong happens there. Women are treated in a different way: they are insulted all the time by other workers. Moreover, they are sexually harassed.Josey notices that isn't treatment normal , although other women don't have encourage to talk about this situation, so she decides to change this situation resorting to justice. The lawyer asks her to convince other workers to join the fight, in other words, to start a class action against the Company. Unfortunately, they don't accept for fear and their situation only gets worse every day in Mina. This case comes to court and so the movie alternates moments in court and in Josey's life. It's an interesting movie because mainly based on real facts; in other words, we can't change the end of the movie. We must accept it even if it is negative. This is an important movie that helps us realize how jokes that seem harmless get out of control, such as those characterized by bullying. To talk about harassment is a difficult issue to be handled because unfortunately people are afraid to report. Josey knew that she could not fight for their rights alone. She needed everyone to come together for the same cause.

North Country stars Charlize Theron as Josie Aimes. The film, based on a true story, centers on Josie who leaves her abusive husband with two small children and travels back to Minnesota to a small town where she grew up. Desperately needing a good paying job to support her family, and not be dependent on her mother and father, (played by Sissy Spacek and Richard Jenkins), her best friend Glory (Francis McDormand) talks her into applying for a position at a local iron mine. The iron mine is the best paying job in the area; however the downside is that the mine is predominately employed by chauvinistic men who aren't actually ready for women in the workplace. She and the other female employees are verbally abused, at times assaulted and continually sexually harassed, which ultimately drives Josie to seek legal help from attorney friend Bill White (Woody Harrelson). A class action lawsuit soon followed. The director of North Country, Niki Caro, very effectively shares a vivid image of the struggles and sadness of workplace harassment, (even in the late 80's), with regard to women who are trying their best to make ends meet in the face of difficulty or opposition. Along with workplace sexual harassment that occurred, work in general in an iron mine was visibly hard and extremely dangerous. Editing and cinematography did a great job of capturing these realities through various shots at the mine. Of particular interest to me was Josie's first day on the job and the slow motion shot of the blasting that occurred while she watched. This would certainly be intimidating for your first day on the job. The irony of North Country for me was that it reminded me of the film Disclosure (1994), which starred Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. Not because the plots were similar, (because they were exact opposite), but because the themes of both films were tied to workplace sexual harassment. North Country was very interesting to watch, although it touched a nerve. I found it especially troubling that this type of behavior would be allowed to occur in the workplace. I found it even more troubling that many of the men stood by and watched is happen because they either didn't care, or were fearful of what the others might think. In any event, Josie Aimes perseveres in the end, giving hope that there is always a civil remedy for what seems to be a hopeless situation.