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Who’s in it: Charlize Theron (above), Woody Harrelson, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Sissy Spacek
What it’s about: Based on the nation’s first class-action sexual-harassment lawsuit, “North Country” tells the story of Josey Aimes (Theron), who takes a job at a Minnesota iron mine where she deals with a bunch of pigs.
Worth watching? (star)(star)
” ‘North Country’ is the poor girl’s ‘Norma Rae,’ a simplistic, heavy-handed story about a coal miner’s daughter who is pitted against a workplace full of Cro-Magnon gorillas who, as apes are wont to do, use their own excrement as a weapon of choice against anyone who crosses them.”
