A couple of movies not to see

Don't bother seeing Elizabethtown or North Country .

North Country, in particuilar, is unworthy. "Based on a true story", it ends up being an amalgam of SILKWOOD and THE ACCUSED, with the family unification theme thrown in ("I just want to be able to feed my kids"). Now, certainly, life is real drama -- but the "based on" tells us that the moviemakers found some drama a little too dramatic. Spoiler alert . But, the movie starts being about the mineworker simply wanting to work her job, unmolested -- hello NORMA RAE -- and ends up in a courtroom, where the entire drama hinges upon whether or not one of her attackers, who, coincidentally, she knew in high school, will confirm that she was indeed raped by one of her teachers. The script is a dog.

Go see A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE instead.