North Country

North Country

  • Director: Niki Caro
  • Writer: Michael Seitzman,Clara Bingham,Laura Leedy
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: October 21, 2005
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Class Action
  • "North Country" is a feature film released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is directed by Nikki Carlo and starring Charlize Theron . It was released in the United States on October 21, 2005.
    The film is based on real events. It tells the story of the female miner in a conservative town, Josie, who was fed up with the harassment of male miners and initiated the first class action lawsuit for sexual harassment in the United States with the help of attorney Bill. 

    Details

    • Release date October 21, 2005
    • Filming locations Chisholm, Minnesota, USA
    • Production companies Warner Bros., Industry Entertainment, Participant

    Box office

    Budget

    $35,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $18,337,722

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $6,422,455

    Gross worldwide

    $25,211,175

    Movie reviews

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    • By Burley 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      Only strength and struggle can survive

      The heroine's life is too rough. She was raped by a high school teacher at the age of 16. The teacher was not punished. The male classmate who saw her being violated also ran away, leaving her only despair. Her life was ruined. I was raped by domestic violence, I was sexually harassed again and again when I entered the mine, my family and friends didn’t understand, and I didn’t get anyone’s respect, so I finally fought back. When the movie was 1 hour and 51 minutes, the heroine talked with...

    • By Oliver 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      Where does the support come from

      The part that touched me the most was the support from relatives and friends. The heroine's father never supported and was very disgusted. Standing by his daughter's side reminded me of my own father. The support from relatives and lovers is the most powerful, it will not fall, and it is the deepest trust. At the same time, from their disappointment, distrust is also the most deadly. I don't know how many people in the dark feel that the world is not so bad because of the care of their...

    • By Dominic 2022-03-24 09:02:45

      pioneers of resistance

      Men can't understand how much sexual harassment hurts women, thinking that several "touches" of the body are "jokes", that women should have a "sense of humor", indeed, people who have not been brainwashed by "chaste" will not understand their pain .
        The heroine lives in an era when women are strongly repressed, a place where women's morality and sex are glued together, getting pregnant out of wedlock, leaving her husband (her so-called life goal), and working in a mine ("man's job"). ....

    • By Miles 2022-03-23 09:02:36

      North Country

      Human nature is so strong and so easy to be timid
      . Facing the injustice of society, the
      strong and the weak are always balanced by a deformed fulcrum.
      Overwhelmed but deeply ingrained , I

      believe that the film does not only want to talk about cases of sexual harassment.
      This is just one of many problems. It is

      good for human nature I 'm not sure about my
      character. I'm just a child of the environment. Seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is...

    • By Guillermo 2022-03-23 09:02:36

      Sit at the table


      The worst thing is not that you are suffered. The worst is that you do not realize that you are suffered.

      After reading 7 classical feminist books and Sandberg's new book, I could not calm down myself after watching this film.

      It's not our fault to be endowed with beauties, moreover, it's not our penalty to born as women.

      The unfairness between men and their female counterpart is so obvious when you click online organizational chart of a company. I...

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    • By Josue 2023-09-14 09:36:19

      Stand up for your friend now, don't be a...

    • By Barrett 2023-08-02 22:08:18

      A little bit of Mars in a patriarchal...

    • By Tracy 2023-06-30 07:59:41

      After seeing a lot of complicated screenwriting designs and editing tricks, I now feel that this kind of narrative of returning to the basics is very good and very comfortable. Theron is really beautiful, this role is actually not suitable for her, it is too beautiful to be persuaded by the plot, just like Fan Ye playing I am not Pan Jinlian, how could such a sweet wife cheat at home-...

    • By Leo 2023-05-16 21:17:06

      Starring Charlize Theron, based on the success of the first sexual harassment case in the United States, there is no way I can do it myself, and I am moved to...

    • By Christopher 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      I really didn't see that it was Theron, and I don't want to be imaged for this movie. The first part is really depressing to watch. I have been very hard to watch in Germany, and it is even more uncomfortable. The feeling of being alone and helpless is terrible. America at that time was really barbaric, I don't know how it is now. I still want to complain, what is the accent? It's so hard to understand, so I had to find an English subtitle...

    Movie plot

    Josie Amis ( Charlize Theron ), who has just ended her unfortunate marriage, takes her children back to her hometown to join her parents. The father ( Richard Jenkins ) has always hated his daughter because Josie’s high school childbirth experience made him think that his daughter is a promiscuous and slutty woman. On the recommendation of her friend Glory ( Francis McDomond ) , she joined a local iron ore company and became one of the...
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    Behind the scenes gags

    In the final court scene, some women who stood up were plaintiffs in real cases. 
    In the scene of Josie refueling shortly after the film began, the gas station marked the price of gasoline per gallon as 1.71 US dollars, and in the winter of 1989, the gasoline price in the United States was 0.9-1 US dollars per gallon. 
    When Josie drove through downtown Minneapolis, models from after 1989 appeared in the...
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    Evaluation action

    "North Country" begins with resistance and ends with emotion. Independent women's tenacity for survival and persistence and courage to human dignity are head-on, revealing feminist warmth in the seemingly gloomy tone. ( CCTV.COM comment) 
    The connotation of Josie played by Theron in the film is very rich. It has both the weak side of being insulted and injured, and the strong side of confrontation. The problems that Josie has to deal...
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    Movie quotes

    • [first lines]

      Josey Aimes: [testifying] Lady, you sit in your nice house, clean floors, your bottled water, your flowers on Valentine's Day, and you think you're tough? Wear my shoes. Tell me tough. Work a day in the pit, tell me tough.

      Lawyer: I'm sure we're all sufficiently impressed, Mrs. Aimes.

      Josey Aimes: There's no "Mrs." here.

    • Hank Aimes: [to Josey upon announcing her desire to work at the mine] You wanna be a lesbian, now?

      Karen Aimes: [innocently] *I* wanna be a lesbian.

    • Josey Aimes: You act like I'm stealing. I work damn hard every day, same as you.

      Hank Aimes: Oh, now you're the same as me.

      Josey Aimes: Oh no, there's a few differences. You don't go to work scared of what they write about you on the walls, or what kind of disgusting thing you might find in your locker. You don't gotta be scared that one of these days you'll come to work and get raped.