TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steven Soderbergh
AU  - Albert, Finney.
AU  - Conchata Ferrell
AU  - David Brisbin
AU  - Dawn Didawick
AU  - George Rocky Sullivan
AU  - Valente Rodriguez
AU  - Julia Roberts
TI  - Erin Brockovich
AV  - DVD 000171 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - USA
PB  - Jersey Films
KW  - Drama
KW  - Biography
N1  - 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; Susannah Grant
N2  - 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
UR  - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0195685/
ER  -