Erin Brockovich (film)

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Erin Brockovich
Image:ErinBrockovichDVDCover.jpg 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.

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

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Box Office 3 Main cast 4 External links

Plot summary

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.

Box Office

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.

Main cast

• Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
• Albert Finney - Ed Masry
• Aaron Eckhart - George
• Marg Helgenberger - Donna Jensen
• Cherry Jones - Pamela Duncan
• Veanne Cox - Theresa Dallavale
• Conchata Ferrell - Brenda
• Tracey Walter - Charles Embry
• Peter Coyote - Kurt Potter
• Erin Brockovich - Julia (cameo role)

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