An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
Erin Brockovich 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 in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer 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 & 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, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her lawfirm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Written by Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
The real Erin Brockovich-Ellis sold the rights to her story to Universal Studios for a reported $100,000.
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Goofs
Continuity:
When Erin is ringing up companies looking for a job she puts the phone down twice after the last phone call.
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Quotes
George:
[parrying Erin's rejection of free babysitting]
Are you always this hard on people who try and help you? Erin Brockovich:
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Crazy Credits
Erin and Ed have seven other cases pending, including one against PG&E
regarding a plant in Kettleman Hills, CA.
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