North country

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:Widescreen ed.
Imprint:Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2005.
Description:1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English
French
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Format: DVD Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5935044
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other uniform titles:Wechsler, Nick.
Caro, Niki, 1967-
Seitzman, Michael, 1967-
Theron, Charlize.
Curtis, Thomas, 1991-
McDormand, Frances.
Bean, Sean.
Jenkins, Richard, 1947-
Renner, Jeremy.
Monaghan, Michelle.
Harrelson, Woody.
Spacek, Sissy.
Menges, Chris, 1940-
Santaolalla, Gustavo.
Bingham, Clara. Class action.
Other authors / contributors:Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
Participant Productions.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
ISBN:141980233X
Notes:Recorded in Dolby digital surround 5.1.
Dual-layer format.
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.
Videodisc release of a 2005 motion picture.
Special features: making-of documentary, Stories from the North country; additional scenes; theatrical trailer.
Director of photography, Chris Menges ; film editor, David Coulson ; music, Gustavo Santaolalla, art director, Gregory S. Hooper ; visual effects supervisor, Eric Durst.
Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Jeremy Renner, Michelle Monaghan, Thomas Curtis, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek.
DVD format.
English or French language tracks with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
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.
Target Audience:MPAA rating: R; for sequences involving sexual harassment including violence and dialogue, and for language.
Standard no.:012569593404
Publisher's no.:59340 Warner Home Video