Julia Roberts kreeg een Oscar voor haar rol in dit emotionele drama. Ze speelt een gescheiden moeder die vecht tegen onrecht en het opneemt tegen de slechteriken
Onze opinie:
Geen absolute topper, maar regisseur Steven Soderbergh slaagde er wel in een op waargebeurde feiten gebaseerde film te maken die zowat iedereen zal kunnen aanspreken
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Biography, Drama | 131min | March 17, 2000 (United States)
7.4
Director: Steven SoderberghWriter: Susannah GrantStars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David BrisbinSummary: 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 in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer 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 & 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, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. 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. —Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
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