North country

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Statement of responsibility: Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Participant Productions ; in association with Schematic Productins GmbH & Co. KG

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Summary: Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota iron mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear that things will only get worse. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the U.S. - Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won a landmark 1984 lawsuit

Credits note: Executive producers, Helen Bartlett, Nana Greenwald, Doug Claybourne, Jeff Skoll ; producer, Nick Wechsler ; screenplay, Michael Seitzman ; director, Niki Caro

Intended audience: Rated R. Sequences involving sexual harassment including violence and dialogue, and for language

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PerformerNote: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Jeremy Renner, Michelle Monaghan, Thomas Curtis, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek

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