Erin Brockovich

(2000)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 3,751 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2000

Runtime: 126 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Стивен Содерберг

Cast: Джулия Робертс, Альберт Финни, Аарон Екгарт, Марж Хелгенбергер, Черри Джонс, Винни Кокс, Кончата Феррелл, Трейси Уолтер, Питер Койот, Майкл Харни

Plot

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

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.