North Country (film)

North Country is a 2005 American drama film that tells the story of a female miner who fights for justice after being sexually harassed by male workers at a mining company. Directed by Niki Caro; Written by Michael Seitzman; Produced by Nick Wechsler; Based on the 2002 book "Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law" by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler All she wanted was to make a living, instead she made history Josey Aimes [first lines] Lady, you sit in your nice house, clean floors, your bottled water, your flowers on Valentine's Day, and you think you're tough? Wear my shoes. Tell me tough. Work a day in the pit, tell me tough. You want a show?! Huh?! Is that what you want?! You can all go to Hell! Hank Aimes My name is Hank Aimes and I've been a miner all my life. And I've never been ashamed of it until now. You know when we take our wives and daughters to the company barbecue, I don't hear any of them calling them those names like bitches and whores and worse. I don't see anyone grab them by their privates or drawing pictures of them on the bathroom walls, it's unspeakable. Unspeakable! So what's changed? She's still my daughter! It's a heck of a thing, to watch one of your own get treated that way. You're all supposed to be my friends, my brothers. Well, right now I don't have a friend in this room. In fact the only one I'm not ashamed of is my daughter. Dialogue Sammy Aimes: That's crap. I got a right. Kyle: Yeah, you got a lot of rights, starting with the right to be pissed off. If fact, you got a right to hate the whole world right now. Sammy Aimes: I don't hate the whole world. I just hate her. Kyle: It takes a lot of work to hate someone. You ready to put in that kind of time? Sammy Aimes: She's a whore, just like everybody says. Kyle: I wonder if it's illegal to call your own mother a whore. Cast Charlize Theron as Josephine "Josey" Aimes Amber Heard as young Josey Frances McDormand as Glory Dodge Sean Bean as Kyle Dodge Richard Jenkins as Henry "Hank" Aimes Jeremy Renner as Robert "Bobby" Sharp Cole Williams as young Bobby Michelle Monaghan as Sherry Thomas Curtis as Samuel "Sammy" Aimes Woody Harrelson as Bill White Sissy Spacek as Alice Aimes Tom Bower as Gray Suchett Linda Emond as Leslie Conlin Rusty Schwimmer as Big Betty Jillian Armenante as Peg Xander Berkeley as Arlen Pavich Chris Mulkey as Earl Slangley Corey Stoll as Ricky Sennett Brad William Henke as Mr. Lattavansky John Aylward as Judge Halsted Marcus Chait as Wayne External links North Country (film) 0395972 North Country Category:2005 films Category:2000s American films Category:Films set in Minnesota Category:Films set in courtrooms Category:Drama films Category:Films based on novels Category:Legal films Category:Films about rape Category:Films about dysfunctional families Category:Films about father–daughter relationships Category:Films about sexual harassment