Genre: Drama
Tagline: All She Wanted Was To Make A Living. Instead She Made History.
Plot: When Josey Aimes (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. It’s an industry long dominated by men, in a place unaccustomed to change. Encouraged by her old friend Glory (FRANCES McDORMAND), 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. Times are tough. 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. If these newcomers want to work the mines they’ll have to do it on the terms set by the veteran workforce and it won’t be easy. Take it or leave it. When Josey speaks out against
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 "North Country" is one of those movies that stir you up and make you mad, because it dramatizes practices you've heard about but never really visualized.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
The film places much emphasis on her reputation and includes, fairly, a slatternly bar-drinking episode. But then it wants to cancel out impressions and say she has been a martyr since high school. We'll buy either version in a fictionalized account. It's only the bait and switch that doesn't wash.  --Ed Blank
If there's any fault to be found, Country does run a little too long and the courtroom scenes are a little too stagy and melodramatic. Knowing the film's outcome before it begins also deadens some of the dramatic punch. Yet, it doesn't take away from theimportant message of courage and self-reflection that Country asks us to consider. Country is thought provoking long after it's over.  --David Levine (FilmCritic.com)
North Country is a gripping, emotionally packed stunner of a drama that easily contends as the best film of 2005.  --Julian Roman (MovieWeb)
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Niki Caro
Whale Rider, The Making of 'Whale Rider', Magacine: (Episode dated 14 October 2005) |
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Charlize Theron
The Devil's Advocate, The Italian Job, The Cider House Rules |
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 | Sean Bean
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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 | Richard Jenkins
Me, Myself & Irene, The Man Who Wasn't There, Changing Lanes |
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To reduce this story into bite-sized Oscar-baiting moments is missing the entire point of the struggle for equality and safety, making "North Country" seriously misguided as it begs nakedly for authenticity.  --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
North Country has admirable ambition, but little else really makes it stand out 6/10--Jeffrey Chen
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