| Director: Niki Caro, Related Films Drama Movies When Josey Aimes (Academy Award winner 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. Its an industry long dominated by men, in a place unaccustomed to change. Encouraged by her old friend Glory (Academy Award winner 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 theyll have to do it on the terms set by the veteran workforce and it wont be easy. Take it or leave it. 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 doesnt 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 Joseys 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 mothers 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. Inspired by a true story, North Country follows Joseys journey on a road that will take her farther than she ever imagined, ultimately inspiring countless others, and leading to the nations first-ever class action lawsuit for sexual harassment. North Country Cast List Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Jeremy Renner, Thomas Curtis, Ricardo Andres, Kyle Falls, Brad William Henke, John Aylward, Gerard Maloney, Chris Mulkey, Arron Shiver, Ron Smith, Corey Stoll, Cole Williams, Marcus Chait, Jillian Armenante, Amber Heard, Debbie Letteau, Michelle Monaghan, Chloe Russell, Rusty Schwimmer, Jacqueline Wright, Catherine Campion, Sage Coy, Wendi Andres, Linda Emond. |
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