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Charlyze Theron leaves an abusive husband and returns to, her home town with her two kids to take a job in a strip mine where women are outnumbered by men 30 to one. She immediately runs into the institutional sexual harrasment, which includes obscenities, groping, and all the other obnoxious things men do to intimidate women. The prevailing belief is that the women are taking jobs away from men. After a series of incidents Theron engages lawywer Woody Harrelson and they file the first class action sexual harrassment lawsuit in the nation. Though the courtroom scenes are hardly realistic they do work on a dramatic level. The film worked for me and is splendidly cast. This is the second directorial outing for Niki Caro, who did "Whale Rider".
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Not to neglect the intimidation of us poor guys, if the man happens to be gay. Ever meet a guy who's been in Bruckheimer's casting office, or Geffen's? Ha!The ladies always think it's all about them...
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...because Josey can't convince anyone to join her. (Later it turns into a class-action suit.)Just saw it and it worked for me too. I was willing to pay the price of admission--only $6 for this old guy--just to see Charlize. WOW does she look good in coveralls, hardhat and dirty face! But it turned into a quite-effective story.
The supporting actors are excellent. Woody Harrelson plays her attorney; Francis McDormand her long-time friend, fellow employee and union steward; Sean Bean, the hugely-evil Irish terrorist in 'Patriot Games', McDormand's husband; Sissy Spacek and Richard Jenkins her parents; the gorgeous Michelle Monaghan a fellow abused employee.
I'm rather conservative myself but felt not-at-all abused by Hollywood. No persons should be subject to the working conditions those women had to tolerate, altho I'm sure Hollywood exagerated them just as movies exagerate almost everything.
The film's web site is remarkably preachy, posturing the movie as a landmark in the battle against sexual harassment. The New York Post's review of North Country confirms that the movie is awash in liberal stereotypes. But one jarring note jumped out at me:Inspired by Anita Hill's testimony at the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Josey talks Bill, a local hockey-hero-turned-lawyer (Woody Harrelson, in his best work in years) into mounting a lawsuit. And like Hill, Josey is confronted by the mine owner's "nuts and sluts" defense that focuses on her own sexual past.
The real Jenson case was filed in 1985, six years before the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing. So this particular embellishment is pure fiction. Why did the moviemakers throw it in? Why do you think? The Supreme Court is in the news, and Justice Thomas is a hero to conservatives. So the liberals who made North Country went out of their way to slime him, shifting the movie's time line by six years just so they could slander a Republican. No wonder conservatives hate Hollywood.And, by the way, what's this about Anita Hill being "confronted" by a "defense" that "focuse[d] on her own sexual past"? I don't remember hearing anything about her sexual past; the defense put forward by Thomas and his supporters was that she was a liar, which the evidence seemed to show pretty convincingly.
"Is this the end of Rico?' Little Caesar, 1930
The film is BASED on real events and states clearly at the beginning that it starts in 1989. And as I point out below the real Anita Hill testimony was in 1991, consistent with the time frame of the film. Although I am politicallt to the right of Atilla the Hun I for one did not find the film "preachy".
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Charlize does it because of Anita; the fact that the SOTUS hearings wouldn't take place til 5 years later shouldn't invalidate the 'facts' of this film being sold as the real, true story...not when Hollywood has a point to make!
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"Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"
The Hill Senate testimony was in 1991. Since the Theron characater moved back home in the winter of 1989 it is entirely conceivable that her actions would occur at the same time as the Clarence Thomas Senate confirmation hearings.
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