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Article: Mining for Oscars; Charlize Theron seeks more gold with `North Country'
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- The Sun - Naperville (IL)
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- October 20, 2005
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Charlize Theron fights for two causes -- equality in the workplace and another Academy Award -- in "North Country."
Winning an Oscar opens up a world of possibilities for an actor, but it can also pigeonhole you. Instead of a wealth of varied parts, you can get stuck playing just one: that of a tragic but noble hero in a serious drama, whose suffering is something of a payment plan for another Academy Award.
That is the challenge facing Charlize Theron in "North Country," a deadly serious drama rooted in real anger that nevertheless succumbs to a number of Oscar Moments -- you know, the sort of grandstanding scenes that feel awkward in the narrative at hand but play beautifully as clips ...