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May 29, 2000 |
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 The Movie Review Erin
Brockovich All
tarted up and brassy, Julia Roberts in her title role as Erin Brockovich
makes her portrayal of the hooker in Pretty Woman look like Alice in
Wonderland. The sexy, penniless and twice-divorced mom of three is a
toughie. With plunging necklines
and climbing hemlines, she takes on a huge power company and helps the
residents of Hinkley, California, win a huge settlement. Soderbergh's
based his film on a real life incident: the Pacific Gas & Electric
company had contaminated the town's water, thereby causing serious health
problems like cancer. Brockovich
is an accidental heroine: she gets involved in an accident, loses her case
and her temper against her lawyer Ed Masry (a fine performance by Albert
Finney), becomes a paralegal in his law firm, stumbles on to what PG&E
are upto and persuades the people of Hinkley to allow Marsy to fight their
case. But the film is less than convincing: films like Silkwood, with a
similar theme were far more powerful. Alas, Soderbergh doesn't quite go
into how the case was really won.
-Robin
Abreu
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