Erin Brockovich (film)

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Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich DVD cover
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Produced by Danny DeVito
Michael Shamberg
Stacey Sher
Written by Susannah Grant
Starring Julia Roberts
Albert Finney
Aaron Eckhart
Marg Helgenberger
Peter Coyote
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography Edward Lachman
Editing by Anne V. Coates
Distributed by - USA -
Universal Pictures
- non-USA -
Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) March 14, 2000
Running time 130 min.
Language English
Budget $51,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

Erin Brockovich is a 2000 movie which dramatizes the story of Erin Brockovich's first fight against the West Coast energy giant PG&E.

The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and featured superstar Julia Roberts in the lead role for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The real Erin Brockovich has a cameo appearance as a waitress named Julia. The movie was criticized by Michael Fumento of the National Review as a one-sided representation of the Hinkley litigation.[1]

Tagline: She brought a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother of three who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in, asks her lawyer, Ed Masry, if he can find her a job in compensation for the loss. Ed gives her work as a file clerk in his office, and she runs across some files on a pro bono case involving real-estate and medical records against Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Erin begins digging into the particulars of the case, convinced that the facts simply do not add up, and persuades Ed to allow her further research; in time, she discovers a systematic cover-up of the industrial poisoning (Hexavalent chromium) of the town of Hinkley's water supply that threatens the health of an entire community.

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Made/produced in just 4 months (5 May - August 1999); in its opening weekend (19 March 2000) it grossed $28,138,465 on 2,848 movie screens in the USA. That alone recouped the $20 million dollars Julia Roberts was paid to portray Erin Brockovich. By August 2000 it grossed $125,548,685.

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Films by Steven Soderbergh
sex, lies, and videotape (1989) | Kafka (1991) | King of the Hill (1993) | Underneath (1995) | Gray's Anatomy (1996) | Schizopolis (1996) | Out of Sight (1998) | The Limey (1999) | Erin Brockovich (2000) | Traffic (2000) | Ocean's Eleven (2001) | Full Frontal (2002) | Solaris (2002) | Eros (Equilibrium) (2004) | Ocean's Twelve (2004) | Bubble (2006) | The Good German (2006) | Guerrilla (2007) | Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
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