North Country

~All she wanted was to make a living... Instead she made history.

Overview

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

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General Information

Release Date: 2005-02-12
Budget: $35000000
Revenue: $25224242
Runtime: 126 min

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