The life of Josey Aimes, a young ambitious woman, who after the abuse she receives from her husband, divorced and flees with her two young children, has been changed completely, when she works at a mine, where she faces many challenges.
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.
