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North Country (2005) -- A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
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North Country (2005) -- A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
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User Rating:
7.2/10   15,332 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Michael Seitzman (screenplay)
Clara Bingham (book) ...
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Release Date:
21 October 2005 (USA) more
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Tagline:
All She Wanted Was To Make A Living. Instead She Made History.
Plot:
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 11 nominations more
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Courtroom Scenes are Flat Out Ridiculous more (193 total)

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Also Known As:
Class Action (USA) (working title)
Untitled Niki Caro Project (USA) (working title)
Северная страна (Russia) [ru]
Anisi mahi (Greece) [el]
En tierra de hombres (Spain) (working title) [es]
Kaltes Land (Germany) [de]
L'affaire Josey Aimes (France) [fr]
Le vent du nord (Canada: French title) [fr]
North Country (Finland) [fi]
North Country - Storia di Josey (Italy) [it]
Terra Fria (Brazil) [pt]
Tierra fría (Argentina) [es]
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Rated R for sequences involving sexual harassment including violence and dialogue, and for language.
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126 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
The Glory character in the movie was a real woman named Pat Kosmach who did suffer from Lou Gehrig's disease and died before the case was settled. She was a divorced mother of 5 children who went to work in the mines to support her children. more
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Anachronisms: The Minneapolis skyline includes a few buildings that didn't exist in 1988-89. more
Quotes:
Arlen Pavich: The doctor says you look darn good under those clothes - sense of humor ladies, rulo numero uno. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards (2006) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Sweetheart Like You more

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63 out of 100 people found the following review useful.
Courtroom Scenes are Flat Out Ridiculous, 6 January 2006
7/10
Author: (normangelman@verizon.net) from Washington, D.C.

Dramatic license is certainly forgivable but this film would have been much more effective if not for the beyond-Perry-Mason touches in the courtroom where the plaintiff's case is rescued at the 11th hour and 59th minute by antics that wouldn't pass muster in any courtroom in America, unless the defendant's attorney (Linda Emond) was utterly incompetent and the judge was a blithering idiot. Surely it should have been possible for a competent script writer to bring the drama to its conclusion in a more believable way. The manifest absurdity of the last 15 minutes of the movie undermined (for me) what was otherwise another excellent performance by Charlize Theron and the usual outstanding work of Frances McDormand. For those who haven't seen her on the stage, this may have been the first time most movie goers will have encountered Linda Emond, who plays the defense attorney. She is a gifted actress who deserves better than being asked to stand by like a cigar store Indian while the plaintiff's attorney (Woody Harrelson) commits every procedural violation that could possibly be conceived. Don't blame Harrelson, however. The one-time goofy bartender of "Cheers" actually does very well in the scenes outside the courtroom. Frankly, I wish this film had stuck more closely to the facts and avoided the phony fireworks at the end.

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