 North Country
Starring: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson
Directed by: Niki Caro
Screenplay by: Michael Seitzman
Release Date: October 14, 2005
MPAA Rating: R for sequences involving sexual harassment including violence and dialogue, and for language.
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
 Domestic: $18,337,722 (72.7%)
Foreign: $6,873,453 (27.3%)
Total: $25,211,175 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: All she wanted was to make a living. Instead she made history.
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.
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.
It’s 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.
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