For several decades now, cinema has embraced the topic of health scandals to bring them to the big (and small) screens with more or less success.
Among the solid works we can cite the last dark waters released in 2020, Chinese Syndrome, a great film led by an extraordinary trio – Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon -, Silkwood Mystery, by Meryl Streep. Constant Gardener and its scandal affecting two powerful pharmaceutical groups, or Revelations, Michael Mann’s masterpiece, about the scandal involving the lobby of cigarette manufacturers…
Julia Roberts’ best movie!
Of course, we have to add Erin Brockovich to the very short list of Steven Soderbergh examples. It’s no surprise that this film is among the top-rated works on AlloCiné in the extensive filmography of its lead actress, Julia Roberts.
She is absolutely superb in an electrifying composition that will rightly win an Oscar for Best Actress, a Golden Globe and even a BAFTA.
Supported by the great and late Albert Finney, who stars alongside her, she plays her part as an unemployed single mother of three, hired as an archivist at a law firm.
One day, he stumbles upon a real estate purchase by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), behind which he discovers the probable causes of drinking water poisoning due to hexavalent chromium.
A very real health scandal for heroin, no less: as a result of investigating the cases of hundreds of victims, in 1993 he managed to sue the company PG&E and pay 333 million dollars in compensation.
Erin Brockovich, Alone Against AllTo watch (or rewatch!) on Netflix.
Source: Allocine
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