Erin Brockovich (film)

Erin Brockovich is a 2000 biographical film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Susannah Grant. The film is a dramatization of the true story of Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts, who fought against the energy corporation Pacific Gas and Electric Company PGampE. The film was a box office success, and critical reaction was positive.

In 1993, Erin Brockovich Julia Roberts is an unemployed single mother of three children, who has recently been injured in a traffic accident with a doctor and is suing him. Her lawyer, Ed Masry Albert Finney, expects to win, but Erins explosive courtroom behavior under crossexamination loses her the case, and Ed will not return her phone calls afterwards. One day he arrives at work to find her in the office, apparently working. She says that he told her things would work out and they didnt, and that she needed a job. He feels bad for her, and decides to give her a try at the office.Erin is given files for a realestate case where the Pacific Gas and Electric Company PGampE is offering to purchase the home of Donna Jensen, a resident of Hinkley, California. Erin is surprised to see medical records in the file and visits Donna, who explains that she had simply kept all her PGampE correspondence together. Donna appreciates PGampEs help she has had several tumors and her husband has Hodgkins lymphoma, but PGampE has always supplied a doctor at their own expense. Erin asks why they would do that, and Donna replies, because of the chromium. Erin begins digging into the case and finds evidence that the groundwater in Hinkley is seriously contaminated with carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, but PGampE has been telling Hinkley residents that they use a safer form of chromium. After several days away from the office doing this research, she is fired by Ed until he realizes that she was working all the time, and sees what she has found out. ........

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