Seen on 12-8-2009 - HBO movie
Cast: John Travalota, Robert Duvall
Dir.: Steven Zillian
BASED ON JONATHAN HARR'S NON-FICTION BESTSELLER WHICH WON NATIONAL BK AWD.
"In this true story, John Travolta stars as a personal-injury lawyer who sues a major corporation for big bucks when the drinking water in Woburn, Mass., is found to contain high levels of industrial solvents. Believing the contamination is responsible for the large number of leukemia deaths among the town's children, the citizens -- lead by a woman (Kathleen Quinlan) whose child has died -- hire a lawyer to take on the corporate polluters."
----A Netflix summary
Roger Ebert is interesting on this: "'Civil Action' is like John Grisham for grownups. Watching it, we realize that Grisham's lawyers are romanticized hotshots living in a cowboy universe with John Wayne values. The real world of the law, this movie argues, has less to do with justice than with strategy and doesn't necessarily arrive at truth. The law is about who wins, not about who should win."
This in a way recalls ERIN BROCOVICH, but required greater concentration on our part to follow the fast-paced script.
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