Review of North Country (2005) by Zane T — 19 May 2009

Hollywood will never get a movie about sexual harassment right and why should they? They're all about exploiting women for profit. Women are giving small roles while the big boys play. A movie like North Country really gets under my skin because all the men in the movie with the exception of Sean Bean and Woody Harrelson all act like Neanderthals. Frances McDormand has a good role but her character can't over shadow Charlize Theron, so the filmmakers have her develop Lou Gehrig's disease over night.

This is one of those "inspired by" movies rather than "based on a true story" movies. Yes, there was a lawsuit, and there was a real person like the one Theron plays but she didn't really have such a dick as a father and a zombie for a mother and a niave son. The actual lawsuit took years to come to a conclusion. This movie over dramatizes every thing. You ask yourself, would a foreman actually allow his workers to vandalize equipment just because boneheaded male workers wanted to pull a prank? Hell, no. Their butts would have been fired. This is one of the worst movies of the decade and by far one of the most overrated. Something tells me this started out as a lifetime movie about 10 years ago set to star Valerie Bertinelli, or Victoria Principal or Meredith Baxter Birney, then, all the big names got involved, so they beefed it up with a rape scene and some vulgar language. Too bad, because they should have just left it a movie on Lifetime.