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Erin Brockovich [2000]
from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
starring Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick, Valente Rodriguez
directed by Steven Soderbergh

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• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

A lone woman, armed only with indomitable sass and her native wit, goes up against the corporate big boys and beats the bejesus out of them. As a story line it's hardly new, but Steven Soderbergh's film keeps it exhilaratingly fresh and lively--thanks not least to his lead actress. Seizing the role of the smart, mouthy, aggressively working-class Erin Brockovich with both hands, Julia Roberts gives it everything she's got and then some. She's well matched by Albert Finney as her grouchy but good-hearted boss and Aaron Eckhart as a sympathetic biker. The story's based--by all accounts fairly closely--on actual events, when the real Erin (who appears briefly in the film as a kindly waitress) brought a massive lawsuit against utilities giant Pacific Gas and Electric for spreading toxic pollution. Rather than confine the action to courtroom shenanigans, Soderbergh takes us out under Southern California's pitiless skies and along the dirt-poor roads where most of PG&E's blue-collar victims live, letting us feel the ground-down exhaustion of their lives. But though it's rooted in reality, the film's anything but solemn. The script's sharp and funny, full of unexpected twists; and Roberts, flaunting herself outrageously in an eye-popping array of push-up bras and micro-miniskirts, has never been better. --Philip Kemp

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Interesting film and lessons to be learned
  Based on a real life story, it focuses on a young, sexy mother who is out of luck. She fails to get justice in her life and with mounting debts is desperately trying to get a job. She ends up working for the lawyer who failed to represent her (actually she forces him to give her a job, as she feels he owes her). From her first day onwards, she is met with much jealousy and resilience from the other female employees (because she is so foxy and dresses to accentuate that). However, she always emphasises... more info

• Julia Robers fits in Erin's role as if she were the real life Erin
  Why can't we get more films like this, a strong story, based on actual events, excellent performances and dialogue which sounds like it is based on how real people talk to each other?
  I don't know how accurate this particular story about corporate deceit and environmental pollution is but, given the track record of big corporations, it should be a rich vein for film makers to mine. 'Erin Brockovich' is very good, a shocking story of land pollution and resultant death and disease in a community. A... more info

• Hugely Satisfying and Encouraging
  This satisying, gleeful film contains some of Julia Roberts' finest acting to date, as she sweet-talks her way into a job working with Lawyer Ed Masry, played by Albert Finney, then unearths a catalogue of sickening corruption carried out by a water board, PG&E.
  With a truly captivating amount of guts, strength, resolve and charisma, Erin Brockovitch and Ed Masry systematically unearth chemical poisoning of people's water in the small town of Hinckley, taking on plaintiff after plaintiff in what... more info

• A satisfying film
  Erin Brockovich is a tale of a woman struggling with circumstances difficult enough to make the viewer wonder how she might get out of them, and it is good to see how she manages (with the help of othet people) to deal with the obstacles and enable truth and justice to prevail as well. The fact that this is a true story about a real human, not a saint, makes it all the more satisfying. The DVD contains an interesting short featurette with the real Erin Brockovich and the lawyer she worked with.
  Highly... more info

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