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Sean Bean Takes Class Action

By James Wray Feb 1, 2005, 9:35 GMT

Woody Harrelson, Sean Bean, Michelle Monaghan, and Richard Jenkins have joined the cast of forthcoming drama "Class Action."Previously announced casting including Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, and Jeremy Renner.Variety reports the film, which begins production mid-February in New Mexico and Minnesota, is 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.In the movie, Spacek and Jenkins play the parents of Josie Aimes (Theron), the single mom who files the lawsuit. Harrelson plays Josie's lawyer, Bean plays the boyfriend of Josie's best friend Glory (McDormand), Renner is a mineworker and former classmate of Josie's, and Monaghan is Josie's fellow mineworker.Michael Seitzman wrote the script, which was inspired by the book "Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law," by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler.

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