TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zaillian,Steven
AU  - Norris,Bruce
AU  - John Lithgow
AU  - Robert Duvall
AU  - Tony Shalhoub
AU  - William H Macy
AU  - Zeljko Ivanek
AU  - John Travolta
TI  - A Civil Action
AV  - DVD 000519 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - USA
PB  - Touchstone Pictures
KW  - Drama
N1  - The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyer; Jonathan Harr
N2  - Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious lawyer, is addressed by a group of families. When investigating the seemingly non-profiting case, he finds it to be a major environmental issue that has a lot of impact potential. A leather production company could be responsible for several deadly cases of leukemia, but also is the main employer for the area. Schlichtmann and his three colleagues set out to have the company forced to decontaminate the affected areas, and of course to sue for a major sum of compensation. But the lawyers of the leather company's mother company are not easy to get to, and soon Schlichtmann and his friends find themselves in a battle of mere survival
UR  - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0120633/
ER  -