movie review - Erin Brockovich
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Sydney, 2000.04.26
Julie Roberts plays a plucky single mom with bills to pay who gets nailed in a car crash in an early frame. She loses the subsequent law suit, but decides that the lawyer owes her something, and demands a job with his firm. Then she takes up a research project, and away we go. Soon she's taking on an energy utility due to groundwater contamination.
Entertaining and harmless, the outcome is foregone in the entire concept. I found the lead smug and abrasive rather than projecting confidence, but the story as a whole is engaging.
Recommended.