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

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