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Summary: Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear that things will only get worse. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the U.S. - Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won a landmark 1984 lawsuit.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1419802321
  • Physical Description: videorecording
    videodisc
    1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Full screen ed.
  • Publisher: [Burbank, CA] : Warner Home Video, [2006]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Based on the book "Class action: the story of Lois Jensen and the landmark case that changed sexual harassment law" by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.
Special features: Deleted scenes; documentaries.
Restrictions on Access Note:
LICENSED FOR HOME USE ONLY
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, Chris Menges ; art director, Gregory S. Hooper ; editor, David Coulson ; music, Gustavo Santaolalla ; costume designer, Cindy Evans ; production designer, Richard Hoover ; visual effects supervisor, Eric Durst.
Participant or Performer Note: Charlize Theron, Elle Peterson, Thomas Curtis, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Woody Harrelson, Jeremy Renner, Richard Jenkins, Sissy Spacek.
Target Audience Note:
PARENTAL ACCOMPANIMENT--14A--CHILDREN UNDER 14 ACCOMPANIED BY PARENTS OR GUARDIAN--COARSE LANGUAGE--DISTURBING CONTENT. Manitoba Film Classification Board
MPAA rating: R; for sequences involving sexual harassment including violence and dialogue, and for language.
Adult.
System Details Note:
DVD; region 1 encoding; full screen (1.33:1) presentation;
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
For private home use only.
Language Note:
Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (Dolby Surround 5.1) or French (Dolby Surround 5.1) with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish.
Subject: Women iron and steel workers -- Minnesota -- Drama
Sexual harassment of women -- Minnesota -- Drama
Steel-works -- Minnesota -- Drama
Feature films
Melodrama
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
DVDs
Video recordings
Topic Heading: Closed-captioned films.

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Summary: Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear that things will only get worse. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the U.S. - Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won a landmark 1984 lawsuit.

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