Erin Brockovich
- IMDb link: 0195685
- IMDb rating: 7.5 (245,702 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Biography
- Director: Steven Soderbergh, Albert Finney
- Cast: Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick and others
- Release date: 17 Mar 2000
- Release year: 2000
- Runtime: 131 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: environmental issue, contamination, corporate crime, based on true story, single mother, contaminated water, environmental, working single mother, lawsuit, hexavalent chromium
Plot:
Erin Brockovich-Ellis is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was into. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her attorney to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and poisoning the residents in the area in a response. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.
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