North Country (Full Screen Edition) |  | Director: Niki Caro
Actors: Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 51196
Format: Full Screen, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 126 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 012569593398
UPC: 012569593398
EAN: 0012569593398
ASIN: B000CQLZ92
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 2005
Release Date: February 21, 2006
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| • | When Josey Aimes (Academy Award winner CHARLIZE THERON) returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota after a failed marriage, she needs a good job. A single mother with two children to support, she turns to the predominant source of employment in the region - the iron mines. The mines provide a livelihood that has sustained a community for generations. The work is hard but the pay is good and fri |
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A sterling cast and vivid direction give North Country an emotional heft to match its political convictions. Charlize Theron (Monster) plays Josey Aimes, who goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage; the male miners, resentful of women taking jobs, verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear that things will only get worse. North Country, directed by Niki Caro (Whale Rider), makes the women's experience palpable for the audience without overdoing it. But the lawsuit is only part of the movie; the gut impact of North Country comes from the devastating effect the lawsuit has on Josey's family, friends, and coworkers--thanks to an incredible ensemble cast that includes Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom), Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings), Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under), Woody Harrelson (The People vs. Larry Flynt), and the always powerful Frances McDormand (Fargo, Mississippi Burning). The courtroom histrionics don't always ring true, but the family conflict is riveting and deeply moving. Based on the book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law. --Bret Fetzer
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NORTH COUNTRY (DVD/P&S-2.40/4:3 TRANSFER/ENG-FR-SP
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 North Country (Full Screen Edition) February 11, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
When Josey Aimes returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota after a failed marriage, she needs a good job. A single mother with two children, she turns to the predominant source of employment in the region--the iron mines. The mines provide a livelihood that has sustained a community for generations. It's an industry long dominated by men, in a place unaccustomed to change. Encouraged by her old friend Glory, one of the few female miners in town, Josey joins the ranks of those laboring to blast ore from rock in the gaping quarries. She is prepared for the back-breaking and often dangerous work, but coping with the harassment she and the other female miners encounter from their male coworkers proves far more challenging. The last thing the miners want is women competing for scarce jobs--women who, in their estimation, have no business driving trucks and hauling rock anyway. When Josey speaks out against the treatment she and her fellow workers face she is met with resistance. This movie is a compelling drama that is well shot, directed and acted. An engaging movie that will satisfy.
 real life story worse than fiction horror story? January 10, 2010
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
Equal employment led to some troubles in a iron ore strip mine
in Minnesota. At the best mining is an hazardous profession,
but strip mining is environmentally the worst.
So when it turned out that the profiteering owners
weren't willing to protect their female workers from the male ones,
the "nuts and sluts defense" was used against an home town girl.
Since she wasn't a nut or a slut and the abuse was very real
by the male workers, the company lost in court.
But they are still strip mining there....
good deal October 31, 2009
M. K. Marino
Good condition, got here fast, and the quality was great. I would definately buy from this retailer again.
5.21.09North Country review May 21, 2009
H. Cha (Panama City, FL United States)
5.21.09 I was looking for a story that displys an individual's resolve to fight for respect at the workplace. Seeing your fellow workers and corporation bosses ANSWER HONESTLY is rare. Perhaps confrontation by courts and monetary compensation is a country's reluctant way of saying, " I 'm not wrong. This court's forcing me to change my ways. We don't need no camera's tape recorders, blogs, etc. If you don't like it then , you leave.
Is this the repeat of a power as large a church saying, ~there is no problem of our fault? The Minnesota , North Country mining case lasted ? 7 years. Pride and truth, a different value than gold.
Kind of a tear-jerker January 29, 2009
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
While noble in intent, this portrayal of a woman's struggles in the iron mines of northern Minnesota loses something in the realism department by casting the glamorous Charlize Theron in the lead role. Anyone who looked like her simply had to load her pickup truck and move to California, Florida or elsewhere to find better jobs. Still, this message movie is pretty well done, and Frances McDormand is great, as always. The accents are realistic, and the men are, too. Watch it.
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