![]() ![]() She finds many cases of tumors and other medical problems in Hinkley. Rehired, she continues her research, and over time, visits many Hinkley residents and wins their trust. 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. Erin begins digging into the case and finds evidence that the groundwater in Hinkley is seriously contaminated with carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, but PG&E has been telling Hinkley residents that they use a safer form of chromium. ![]() Erin asks why they would do that, and Donna replies, "because of the chromium". Donna appreciates PG&E's help: she has had several tumors and her husband has Hodgkin's lymphoma, but PG&E has always supplied a doctor at their own expense. Erin is surprised to see medical records in the file and visits Donna, who explains that she had simply kept all her PG&E correspondence together. Ed takes pity on Erin, and she gets a paid job at the office.Įrin is given files for a real estate case where the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is offering to purchase the home of Donna Jensen, a resident of Hinkley, California. She says that he told her things would work out and they did not, and that she needed a job. One day, he arrives at work to find her in the office, apparently working. Her lawyer, Ed Masry, expects to win, but Erin's explosive courtroom behavior under cross-examination loses her the case, and Ed will not return her phone calls afterwards. ![]() In 1993, Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother of three children, who has recently been injured in a traffic accident with a doctor and is suing him. Early in the film, the Erin Brockovich makes a surprise cameo appearance as a waitress, ironically named ‘Julia’ the real Ed Masry also appears in the same scene. Soderbergh received a separate Best Director nomination for Traffic, another film released that same year, which he won. Roberts also won a BAFTA award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and multiple critics awards. The film received five nominations at the 73rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Soderbergh, Best Original Screenplay for Grant, Best Actress for Roberts (which she won), and Best Supporting Actor for Albert Finney. The film was a box-office success, and gained a positive critical reaction. The film is a dramatization of the true story of Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts, who initiated a legal case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) over its culpability for the Hinkley groundwater contamination incident. Erin Brockovich is a 2000 American biographical legal drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Susannah Grant. ![]()
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