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A Civil Action
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In an attempt to get rid of a company that throw its toxic garbage in the water, Jan Schlichtmann, an intelligent and aspiring lawyer, who takes on the mission of suing this firm, as it leads to the death of many children by leukemia.
In an attempt to get rid of a company that throw its toxic garbage in the water, Jan Schlichtmann, an intelligent and aspiring lawyer, who takes on the mission of suing this firm, as it leads to the death of many children by leukemia.
Actors:
Scott Weintraub,
James Gandolfini,
Christopher Stevenson,
Daniel von Bargen,
Robert Duvall,
Michael P. Byrne,
Ned Eisenberg,
David Barrett,
Harout Beshlian,
Tommy Bull,
Harry Dean Stanton,
...»
Scott Weintraub
James Gandolfini
18 September 1961, Westwood, New Jersey, USA
Christopher Stevenson
Daniel von Bargen
5 June 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Robert Duvall
5 January 1931, San Diego, California, USA
Michael P. Byrne
Ned Eisenberg
13 January 1957, New York City, New York, USA
David Barrett
Harout Beshlian
Tommy Bull
Harry Dean Stanton
14 July 1926, West Irvine, Kentucky, USA
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Steven Zaillian
Steven Zaillian
30 January 1953, Fresno, California, USA
Country:
United States
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Draxblog Movie Reviews
February 28, 2005
the film is slightly overlong and the ending is anti-cathartic.
February 09, 2006
Delivering the verdict two thirds into the movie is anti-climactic, while Schlichtmann's belated atonement feels beside the point.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
February 05, 2005
... hints at the complex moral issues that vein the story.
Village Voice
January 01, 2000
A slick, shameless job that takes way too long to make its point (namely, we need the EPA).
April 09, 2005
I expected a harder hitting indictment against the uncaring power of corporate America. Instead, we get a middlin' courtroom drama that lacks the intensity of such films as the 1982 Sidney Lumet/Paul Newman film, The Verdict.
November 22, 2009
This is a case in which the material really is better served in book form.
Variety
June 01, 2006
Based on a true story, this is an intelligent legal thriller, very much in the mode of 1970s issue-oriented films, that may be too subtle and complex for the damands of today's market.
January 01, 2000
Schlichtmann may have gone through this conversion in real life, but I just didn't buy it the way Zaillian presents it.
December 06, 2005
While Travolta is passable as Schlichtmann, it is the outstanding work from Duvall, Macy and briefly Tony Shalhoub that drive the story.
February 14, 2001
As proficient a job as writer-director Steve Zaillian and his team do, A Civil Action has unmistakably unraveled by its close.
July 30, 2007
The movie becomes one more David-and-Goliath morality play.
New York Magazine/Vulture
January 01, 2000
I'm all for films that don't flow from the usual Hollywood test tubes, but A Civil Action is basically the standard formula with a dash of downbeat.