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Single mother Josey Aimes is part of a group of the first women to work at a local iron mine, only to endure harassment from male co-workers, ranging from verbal taunts to pornographic graffiti and worse. She eventually filed suit in 1984 and won a landmark legal decision.
While the performances are flawless, Michael Seitzman's screenplay is embarrassingly sophomoric, so much so that the film's denouement completely obliterates its feminist message.
North Country is the unfortunately overly-dramatized Hollywood version of a story that has a chance at being truly important and even uplifting, but thanks to extreme heavy-handedness, ends up being mostly shrill instead.