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North Country
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Charlize
Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy
Spacek, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins,
Jeremy Renner, Michelle Monaghan, Woody
Harrelson, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis |
| Producer |
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Nick Wechsler |
| Director |
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Niki Caro |
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Biopic, Legal, Adaptation, Period |
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123 mins |
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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
not only from those in power but from a community
that doesn’t want to hear the truth, her disapproving
parents and many of her own colleagues who fear
she is only making things worse. In time, even her
friendship with Glory will be tested, her already
difficult connection with her father, a lifelong
miner, will be pushed to its limit and elements
of her personal life exposed to scrutiny.
The fallout from Josey’s battle to make a
better future for herself and her children will
affect every aspect of her life, including her relationship
with her young daughter and her sensitive teenage
son, who must first cope with the embarrassment
of his mother’s sudden notoriety and then
face harsh details of her past she was hoping he
would never have to know. Through these struggles
Josey will find the courage to stand up for what
she believes in even if that means standing alone.
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