DVD
North country
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (EAS)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
In English or French, with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Performers
Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Jeremy Renner, Michelle Monaghan, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis.
Publication Information
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; sequences involving sexual harassment including violence and dialogue, and for language.
Summary
Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel 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.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the book "Class action: the story of Lois Jensen and the landmark case that changed sexual harassment law" by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.
Special features: Making-of documentary Stories from the North country ; additional scenes ; theatrical trailer.