Erin Brockovich (2000)
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
Tagline:
« She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees. »
Actors:
Erin Brockovich
Dr. Jaffe
Rosalind
Ed Masry
Donald
Rating:
(248’168 votes)
(248’168 votes)
Quotes:
« Kurt Potter: Wha… how did you do this?
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« Erin Brockovich: Well, um, seeing as how I have no brains or legal expertise, and Ed here was losing all faith in the system, am I right?
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« Ed Masry: Oh, yeah, completely. No faith, no faith…
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« Erin Brockovich: I just went out there and performed sexual favors. Six hundred and thirty-four blow jobs in five days… I'm really quite tired.
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« George: How many numbers you got?
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« Erin Brockovich: Oh, I got numbers comin' outta my ears. For instance: ten.
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« George: Ten?
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« Erin Brockovich: Yeah. That's how many months old my baby girl is.
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« George: You got a little girl?
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« Erin Brockovich: Yeah. Yeah, sexy, huh? How 'bout this for a number? Six. That's how old my other daughter is, eight is the age of my son, two is how many times I've been married – and divorced; sixteen is the number of dollars I have in my bank account. 850-3943. That's my phone number, and with all the numbers I gave you, I'm guessing zero is the number of times you're gonna call it.
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« Ms. Sanchez: [at the meeting with the PG & E lawyers] Let's be honest here. Twenty million dollars is more money than these people have ever dreamed of.
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« Erin Brockovich: Oh see, now that pisses me off. First of all, since the demur we have more than 400 plaintiffs and… let's be honest, we all know there are more out there. They may not be the most sophisticated people but they do know how to divide and $20 million isn't *shit* when you split it between them. Second of all, these people don't dream about being rich. They dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they'll have to have a hysterectomy at the age of *twenty*. Like Rosa Diaz, a client of ours. Or have their spine deteriorate, like Stan Blume, *another* client of ours. So before you come back here with another lame ass offer, I want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth, Mr. Walker. Or what you might expect someone to pay you for your uterus, Ms. Sanchez. Then you take out your calculator and you multiply that number by a hundred. Anything less than that is a waste of our time.
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[Ms. Sanchez picks up a glass of water]
« Erin Brockovich: By the way, we had that water brought in specially for you folks. Came from a well in Hinkley.
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« Ms. Sanchez: [Puts down the glass, without drinking] I think this meeting is over.
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« Ed Masry: Damn right it is.
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Trailer:
Official Trailer
Runtime:131 minutes
Plots:
A flamboyant law firm secretary works tirelessly to gain justice for a small town wrecked by a utility company’s pollution.
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.
Julia Roberts stars in this legal drama based on the story of a woman who helped win the largest settlement ever paid in a direct-action lawsuit. Erin Brockovich (Roberts) is a single mother of three who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit, asks her attorney, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), if he can help her find a job. Ed gives her work as a file clerk in his office, and she runs across some information on a little-known case filed against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Erin begins digging into the particulars of the case, convinced that the facts simply don’t add up, and persuades Ed to allow her to do further research; she eventually discovers a systematic cover-up of the industrial poisoning of a city’s water supply, which threatens the health of the entire community.
