I recently sat down on a Saturday afternoon, and, having nothing else to watch, put the Charlize Theron critically acclaimed movie called “North Country” on from HBO On Demand.  I have to say, overall, it was not a bad movie.  Charlize did a great job acting, as I always think she does, and the other actors were greating supporting actors, including Francis McDormand as her coworker and close friend and Sean Bean who played Francis McDormand’s husband was also a great supporting role. 

Charlize plays a single mom, who we see leaves her abusive a-hole husband or boyfriend (we assume at first he’s the father of both her children but find out later that’s not the case), and goes back to a small northern town to live with her traditional, rigid mom and dad who think she’s kind of a screw up.  Her mother (played by Sissy Spacek, another great supporting role), actually says she shouldn’t provoke him and needs to go back to him.

We see Charlize pick herself up and go get a job at a local coal mine where there are almost no female workers, and they just started to be allowed to work there.  She finds the money is good, and she can buy a modest house and support her boy and girl while working there.  What ensues is based on a true story about the landmark sexual harrassment case at the coal mine raised by Charlize, and then later corroborated by her other female coworkers. 

The only complaint I have about this movie, without giving anything away, is that some of the situations seem just plain overdone and simply ridiculous.  It almost seems overblown to the point where you think “now who would say that, really?”  I’m sure the movie took creative license, but in this aspect sometimes it does go a little far and reaches the point of disbelief.