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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 21, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson & Sean Bean | |
Performer: | Richard Jenkins, Jim Cada, Rusty Schwimmer, Thomas Curtis, Michelle Monaghan, Marjorie Monaghan, Brad Henke, Jillian Armenante, Elle Peterson & Linda Edmond | |
Directed by | Niki Caro & Chris Menges | |
Edited by | David Coulson | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Seitzman | |
Composition by | Gustavo Santaolalla | |
Produced by | Helen Buck Bartlett, Doug Claybourne, Nana Greenwald, Nick Wechsler & Valerie Flueger | |
Executive Production by | Jeff Skoll |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- Caro successfully captures a sense of community dynamic, and contrasts the forbidding landscape with Josie's inner resolve.
Uncut
You cannot help being stirred by the reach and depth, the constant rebuffs to sloppiness, of a strong ensemble.
New Yorker
Yet Theron's steady performance allows you to see something in Josey that baulks at her victim status.
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New Statesman
Rating: B --
issue movie that blatantly examines power and sexual harassment in the workplace
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Old School Reviews
Rating: 62/100 --
The road to cinematic hell is paved with this sort of banal effort borne of bland good expectations.
Apollo Guide
Rating: C- --
Would have you believe it's no more complex than a playground quarrel between boys, girls, and cooties.
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Projection Booth
Rating: A- --
Theron's performance gives the film the emotional core needed to make it among the best films I have seen this year.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Product Description:
This melodrama for the modern age is based on the true story of the first successful sexual harassment case in America. Niki Caro's (WHALE RIDER) inspirational tale traces one woman's determined struggle for independence and equality in a male-dominated environment--a struggle that set a precedent for improved working conditions for women across the country. Charlize Theron plays Josey Aimes, a young mother of two who has just left her abusive husband and returned home to live with her parents (Sissy Spacek and Richard Jenkins). Reconnecting with her old friend Glory (Frances McDormand), she learns of a well-paid job at the mines that would allow her a modicum of independence for the first time in her life. But Josey soon finds out about the drawbacks to the job, as the men mount a war of escalating cruelty against the women, who are expected to "take it like a man." Dildos in lunch boxes, obscene graffiti, and a harrowing episode in a Porta-Potty are just some of the indignities the women have to suffer in silence. Finally, Josey is pushed too far and decides to fight back, but she finds herself hard-pressed to find allies willing to sacrifice their bread and butter. Vilified by her former friends, increasingly abused by male colleagues, and estranged from her son and also from Glory, Josey nonetheless decides to sue the company. She is aided by exiled New York lawyer and former local sports star Bill White (Woody Harrelson). As in all successful melodrama, good and evil are clearly marked, with the powerful corporation and the male workers the unmitigated bad guys. However, this makes Josey's courage and strength, as well as the scope of what she accomplished, stand out in even starker contrast.
Description by Warner Home Video:
North Country
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 friendships that form on the job extend into everyday life, bonding families and neighborhoods with a common thread.
The mines provide a livelihood that has sustained a community for generations. The work is hard but the pay is good and friendships that form on the job extend into everyday life, bonding families and neighborhoods with a common thread.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 37,106
- UPC: 012569593404
- Shipping Weight: 0.21/lbs (approx)
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