The Worst Film Ever

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The movie North country does not have a lot to do about mandatory minimums but it does connect because the ways Josey win the lawsuit against the Mine is with the help of the other women and community and that is how we can help fight Mandatory minimums with groups of people who have been given years in jail for minor crimes and what it has done to their family, that would get the message across. The movie could have had a scene or part were a man from the mine get up and explains why he has such harsh feeling towards women, it would not justify his actions but it would give us a better perspective about him and the rest of the men. Glory has come to the court in her wheelchair and from the back of the room, her husband reads a letter saying she stands with Josey. Other women then stand up to support Josey's complaint. They are followed by more women, family members, and miners, making the case a class action.

North Country is a fictionalized account of the landmark, first in The United States, class-action sexual harassment lawsuit, Lois E. Jenson vs. Eveleth Taconite Co., filed in 1988 on the behalf of Lois Jenson of her employment at EVTAC Mine in Eveleth, Minnesota, and it's not all respectable to the real true story. It misses the heart of the matter. The occurrences of sexual harassment in North Country are roughly diminished by having way more grunting and hollering from the male miners than it has appropriately depicted sentiment towards the severity of the female miners' horrendous accusations. All inaccuracies aside, North Country is far too politely shown, to say the least. It's insulting how badly North Country loafs around the real hard issues. North Country carries a very strong camera, but it focuses on the all the trite stuff. The movie spends too much time on the family without any real intrigue and not nearly enough time on what happens at the mine workplace. This movie should have been easily great with any bit dosage of honorable movie-making. The message of the story is lost. The great acting is wasted, as is the writing. The sexual assault scenes are held in such poor suspense, like, we know they're going to happen, can we not dwell so much on them? North Country is atrociously ostentatious. I'm obviously critiquing the movie harshly because of its real life implications, but standing up as a fateful fable, North Country is good, though it had such a unperturbed pathway to greatness.

North Country stars Charlize Theron as Josie Aimes. The film, based on a true story, centers on Josie who leaves her abusive husband with two small children and travels back to Minnesota to a small town where she grew up. Desperately needing a good paying job to support her family, and not be dependent on her mother and father, (played by Sissy Spacek and Richard Jenkins), her best friend Glory (Francis McDormand) talks her into applying for a position at a local iron mine. The iron mine is the best paying job in the area; however the downside is that the mine is predominately employed by chauvinistic men who aren't actually ready for women in the workplace. She and the other female employees are verbally abused, at times assaulted and continually sexually harassed, which ultimately drives Josie to seek legal help from attorney friend Bill White (Woody Harrelson). A class action lawsuit soon followed. The director of North Country, Niki Caro, very effectively shares a vivid image of the struggles and sadness of workplace harassment, (even in the late 80's), with regard to women who are trying their best to make ends meet in the face of difficulty or opposition. Along with workplace sexual harassment that occurred, work in general in an iron mine was visibly hard and extremely dangerous. Editing and cinematography did a great job of capturing these realities through various shots at the mine. Of particular interest to me was Josie's first day on the job and the slow motion shot of the blasting that occurred while she watched. This would certainly be intimidating for your first day on the job. The irony of North Country for me was that it reminded me of the film Disclosure (1994), which starred Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. Not because the plots were similar, (because they were exact opposite), but because the themes of both films were tied to workplace sexual harassment. North Country was very interesting to watch, although it touched a nerve. I found it especially troubling that this type of behavior would be allowed to occur in the workplace. I found it even more troubling that many of the men stood by and watched is happen because they either didn't care, or were fearful of what the others might think. In any event, Josie Aimes perseveres in the end, giving hope that there is always a civil remedy for what seems to be a hopeless situation.

Inspired by actual events, a mother of two out of necessity goes to work as a miner, but is met with outrageous and disgraceful discrimination and harassment because of her gender. With all the odds stacked against her, can she win a court case against her employers?The lead actress Charlize Theron, must surely be the best dramatic performer in the States at the moment. She is stunning and outstanding in her role.The production is first class and one can almost feel, taste and touch the mining community in the way the film is presented. The whole movie has a ring of authenticity about it and every single player gives a full throttle believable portrayal.This picture had me engrossed from start to finish:Hence deserves top or near top marks:9/10