Erin Brockovich (film)

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Erin Brockovich
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Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by Susannah Grant
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Ed Lachman
Edited by Anne V. Coates
Music by Thomas Newman
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Release date
  • March 17, 2000 (2000-03-17)
Running time
130 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$52 million
Box office$256.3 million

Erin Brockovich is a 2000 American biographical legal drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Susannah Grant. [2] The film is a dramatization of the true story of Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts, who initiated a legal case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company over its culpability for the Hinkley groundwater contamination incident. Erin Brockovich was released theatrically in the United States on March 17, 2000 by Universal Pictures and internationally by Columbia Pictures. It emerged as a critical and commercial success, grossing over $256 million worldwide.

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The film received five nominations at the 73rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (for Soderbergh) and Best Supporting Actor (for Albert Finney), winning Best Actress (for Roberts). For her performance, Roberts also earned the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Additionally, the film also won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director (for Soderbergh, also for Traffic) and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role (for Finney).

Plot

In 1993, Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother of three children, who has recently been injured in a car crash with a doctor and is suing him. Her lawyer, Ed Masry, expects to win, but Erin's explosive courtroom behavior under cross-examination loses her the case, and Ed will not return her phone calls afterwards. One day, he arrives at work to find her in the office, apparently working. She says that he told her things would work out and they did not, and that she needed a job. Ed takes pity on Erin, and she gets a paid job at the office.

Erin is given files for a real estate case where the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is offering to purchase the home of Donna Jensen, a resident of Hinkley, California. Erin is surprised to see medical records in the file and visits Donna, who explains that she had simply kept all her PG&E correspondence together. Donna appreciates PG&E's help: she has had several tumors and her husband has Hodgkin's lymphoma, but PG&E has always supplied a doctor at their own expense. Erin asks why they would do that, and Donna replies, "because of the chromium". Erin begins digging into the case and finds evidence that the groundwater in Hinkley is seriously contaminated with carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, but PG&E has been telling Hinkley residents that they use a safer form of chromium. After several days away from the office doing this research, she is fired by Ed until he realizes that she has been working the entire time, and sees what she has found out.

Rehired, she continues her research, and over time, visits many Hinkley residents and wins their trust. She finds many cases of tumors and other medical problems in Hinkley. Everyone has been treated by PG&E's doctors and thinks the cluster of cases is just a coincidence, unrelated to the "safe" chromium. The Jensens' claim for compensation grows into a major class action lawsuit, but the direct evidence only relates to PG&E's Hinkley plant, not to the senior management.

Knowing that PG&E could slow any settlement for years through delays and appeals, Ed takes the opportunity to arrange for disposition by binding arbitration, but a large majority of the plaintiffs must agree to this. Erin returns to Hinkley and persuades all 634 plaintiffs to go along. While she is there, a man named Charles Embry approaches her to say that he and his cousin were PG&E employees, but his cousin recently died from the poison. The man says he was tasked with destroying documents at PG&E, but, "as it turns out," he "wasn't a very good employee".

Embry gives Erin the documents, which include a 1966 memo proving corporate headquarters knew the water was contaminated with hexavalent chromium, did nothing about it, and advised the Hinkley operation to keep this secret. The judge orders PG&E to pay a settlement amount of $333 million to be distributed among the plaintiffs.

In the aftermath, Ed hands Erin her bonus payment for the case but warns her he has changed the amount. She explodes into a complaint that she deserves more respect, but is astonished to find that he has increased it—to $2 million.

Cast

Production

Development and writing

The idea for the film came to be when executive producer Carla Santos Shamberg happened to learn about Erin Brockovich's story due to sharing a chiropractor with her. [3] Santos Shamberg invited Brockovich over to her house to share her story. Of their meeting, Santos Shamberg recalled: "I couldn't believe it. It seemed incredible that this twice-divorced woman with three young children, who had no money, no resources, and no formal education, had single-handedly put this case together. I thought she seemed like the perfect role model for the new millennium." [4]

Brockovich sold the film rights to her story in 1997 and the film began development at Jersey Films. [3] Producers courted Callie Khouri [5] and Paul Attanasio [6] to write the script, but after they passed, screenwriter Susannah Grant was hired. Grant, who was looking to do a "story about a kick-ass broad", secured a meeting with Brockovich in person. [3] Grant spent a year following Brockovich and her kids around while writing the screenplay. [7] To ensure the script’s accuracy, Grant said she spent weeks going over the trial transcripts, Hinkley water board records, and notes made by Brockovich during the investigation. [3]

Grant and the producers were in agreement that they did not want to do a traditional courtroom drama where institutional corruption would be the heart of the story. Said Grant of the script: "I came to believe that the spine of the story would be stronger if it was an emotional spine rather than an informational spine. So I really structured it [around] Erin and Ed's relationship. Structurally, it's a love story. It's not a romantic love, obviously, but it is an interpersonal love story. That was going to give me the most freedom. There's a scene where she's explaining the degree of malfeasance on PG&E's part, and all of that is in there, but what she's really doing in that scene is proving to Ed her worth and that he should be stepping up and meeting her where she is." [5]

After three big-name directors passed on helming the film, Jersey Films approached Steven Soderbergh, who already had a relationship with the production company due to his 1998 film Out of Sight . [3] Soderbergh was selected to direct because he was known for being a good director of women. "I knew he would treat this character with a lot of respect and not make her silly. He did it with Jennifer Lopez [in 'Out of Sight'] and Andie MacDowell [in 'sex, lies, & videotape']," said Santos Shamberg. [3] Said Soderberg: "It’s rare to find human-sized heroes, and I was just captivated by [Erin] and her relationship with Ed and the fact that it was a story about people who made certain sacrifices and stood on certain principles without being a screed." [3] Soderbergh was also drawn to the project for the opportunity to direct a film in which the female protagonist is in every scene in the film, something he had never done before. [8]

Santos Shamberg pictured Julia Roberts in the lead role from the outset, but producers thought her casting would be a long shot. However, the script was slipped to Roberts' agent and the actress expressed enthusiasm in taking on the lead role and working with Soderbergh. [3] [8] In doing the film, Roberts became the first actress at that time to be paid $20 million. [9]

Filming

The film was shot in 1999 over eleven weeks, of which five took place in Ventura, California. [10] Richard LaGravenese did an uncredited script polish. [11] [5] [12]

Brockovich herself appears in the film as a waitress, while Edward Masry appears as a diner patron sitting behind her. [3] A judge who delivered a key ruling in the PG&E case was played by the actual judge. [3]

The scene where a PG&E attorney is afraid to drink from a glass of water after Brockovich and Masry inform her that it came from Hinkley wells was altered for dramatic effect, but did actually take place during a trial. [3]

A scene that was cut from the final version showed Erin becoming sick from the toxins, which happened in real life. Soderbergh excised the scene as he "didn't want people to think that this was going to turn into one of those movies where the protagonist gets terminally ill. It was a tough call, because Erin really did get sick and was hospitalized for a while." [13]

Erin Brockovich performed well with test audiences but executives at Universal Pictures were worried that audiences would be turned off by the title character's use of profane language. [14]

Reception

Box office

Erin Brockovich was released on March 17, 2000, in 2,848 theaters and grossed $28.1 million on its opening weekend. It had the second-highest March opening weekend upon release, after Liar Liar . This was also the second-highest opening weekend for a Julia Roberts film, behind Runaway Bride . [15] The film reached the number one spot during its first weekend, beating Mission to Mars and Final Destination . [16] It made $18.5 million while declining by 34% for its second weekend while outgrossing Romeo Must Die , Here on Earth and Whatever It Takes . [17] [18] Then, Erin Brockovich collected $13.8 million in its third weekend, defeating The Road to El Dorado and The Skulls . [19] Overall, it spent a total of three weeks as the number one film until it was dethroned by Rules of Engagement . [20] The film went on to make $125.6 million in North America, making it the tenth highest-grossing film domestically for the year 2000. [21] It grossed $130.7 million internationally for a worldwide total of $256.3 million. [22]

Critical response

On review website Rotten Tomatoes, Erin Brockovich holds an approval rating of 85% based on 152 reviews, with an average rating of 7.50/10. The critics consensus reads, "Taking full advantage of Julia Roberts's considerable talent and appeal, Erin Brockovich overcomes a few character and plot issues to deliver a smart, thoughtful, and funny legal drama." [23] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted score of 73 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews." [24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. [25]

In his review for The New York Observer , Andrew Sarris wrote, "We get the best of independent cinema and the best of mainstream cinema all in one package. Erin Brockovich, like Wonder Boys right before it, makes the year 2000 seem increasingly promising for movies". [26] Newsweek 's David Ansen began his review with, "Julia Roberts is flat-out terrific in Erin Brockovich." Furthermore, he wrote, "Roberts has wasted her effervescence on many paltry projects, but she hits the jackpot this time. Erin, single mother of three, a former Miss Wichita who improbably rallies a community to take on a multi-billion-dollar corporation, is the richest role of her career, simultaneously showing off her comic, dramatic and romantic chops". [27] Rolling Stone 's Peter Travers wrote, "Roberts shows the emotional toll on Erin as she tries to stay responsible to her children and to a job that has provided her with a first taste of self-esteem". [28] In his review for Entertainment Weekly , Owen Gleiberman gave the film a "B+" rating and wrote, "It's a delight to watch Roberts, with her flirtatious sparkle and undertow of melancholy, ricochet off Finney's wonderfully jaded, dry-as-beef-jerky performance as the beleaguered career attorney who knows too much about the loopholes of his profession to have much faith left in it". [29] Sight & Sound 's Andrew O'Hehir wrote, "Perhaps the best thing about this relaxed and supremely engaging film (for my money the best work either the director or his star has ever done) is that even its near-fairytale resolution doesn't offer a magical transformation". [30] In her review for The Village Voice , Amy Taubin wrote, "What's pretty original about the picture is that it focuses an investigative drama based on a true story around a comic performance". [31]

However, film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a two-star review, writing, "There is obviously a story here, but Erin Brockovich doesn't make it compelling. The film lacks focus and energy, the character development is facile and thin". [32] In his review for The New York Times , A.O. Scott wrote, "After proving, for about 40 minutes, what a marvelous actress she can be, Ms. Roberts spends the next 90 content to be a movie star. As the movie drags on, her performance swells to bursting with moral vanity and phony populism". [33] Time 's Richard Corliss found the film to be "slick, grating and false. We bet it makes a bundle". [34]

Writing about the film for its twentieth anniversary, critic Scott Tobias wrote in The Guardian , "With this film and Traffic the same year, Soderbergh would prove to be a master at connecting the dots without making it seem like an information dump. In Erin Brockovich, Roberts is the spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down: as we learn about different types of chromium, the range of medical abnormalities, and the ins and outs of real estate documents and toxicology reports, she's ripping some poor suit with invective or using her body as a diversionary tactic. It never feels difficult to sort through the facts – and, more crucially, the emotional stakes of the case are never lost in them. That's Brockovich's gift. And that's Roberts', too." [35]

Accolades

Julia Roberts became the first actress to win an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, National Board of Review Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for a single performance. [36]

Steven Soderbergh received dual nominations for Best Director that year for both Erin Brockovich and Traffic, winning the award for the latter. [37]

AwardCategoryRecipient(s)Result
Academy Awards [38] [39] [37] Best Picture Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher Nominated
Best Director Steven Soderbergh Nominated
Best Actress Julia Roberts Won
Best Supporting Actor Albert Finney Nominated
Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Susannah Grant Nominated
Amanda Awards Best Foreign Feature FilmSteven SoderberghNominated
American Film Institute Awards [40] Top 10 Movies of the YearWon
Artios Awards [41] Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film Casting – Drama Margery SimkinNominated
Awards Circuit Community AwardsBest Actress in a Leading RoleJulia RobertsRunner-up
Best Actor in a Supporting RoleAlbert FinneyWon
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards [42] Favorite Actress – DramaJulia RobertsWon
Favorite Supporting Actor – DramaAlbert FinneyNominated
Favorite Supporting Actress – Drama Marg Helgenberger Nominated
BMI Film & TV Awards Film Music Award Thomas Newman Won
Bogey AwardsWon
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards [43] Best Film 3rd Place
Best Director Steven Soderbergh3rd Place
Best Actress Julia Roberts3rd Place
Best Supporting Actor Albert Finney3rd Place
British Academy Film Awards [44] Best Film Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey SherNominated
Best Direction Steven SoderberghNominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role Julia RobertsWon
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Albert FinneyNominated
Best Original Screenplay Susannah GrantNominated
Best Editing Anne V. Coates Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards [45] Best Actress Julia RobertsNominated
Best Supporting Actor Albert FinneyNominated
Chlotrudis Awards [46] Best Supporting ActorNominated
Costume Designers Guild Awards Excellence in Contemporary Film Jeffrey KurlandWon
Critics' Choice Movie Awards [47] [48] Top 10 FilmsWon
Best Picture Nominated
Best Director Steven Soderbergh (also for Traffic )Won
Best Actress Julia RobertsWon
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards Top 10 Films 6th Place
Best Film Nominated
Best Actress Julia RobertsNominated
Best Supporting Actor Albert FinneyWon
Directors Guild of America Awards [49] Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Steven SoderberghNominated
Edgar Allan Poe Awards [50] Best Motion Picture Susannah GrantNominated
Empire Awards [51] Best Actress Julia RobertsNominated
Environmental Media Awards [52] Feature FilmWon
European Film Awards [53] Screen International AwardNominated
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards [54] Best Director Steven Soderbergh (also for Traffic )Won
Golden Globe Awards [55] [56] [57] Best Motion Picture – Drama Nominated
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Julia RobertsWon
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Albert FinneyNominated
Best Director – Motion Picture Steven SoderberghNominated
Golden Reel Awards Best Sound Editing – Dialogue & ADR, Domestic Feature Film Larry Blake and Aaron Glascock Nominated
Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects & Foley, Domestic Feature Film Michael KellerNominated
Jupiter Awards Best International ActressJulia RobertsWon
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards [58] Best PictureWon
Best DirectorSteven Soderbergh (also for Traffic )Won
Best ActressJulia RobertsNominated
Best Supporting ActorAlbert FinneyNominated
Best Original ScreenplaySusannah Grant and Richard LaGravenese Won
London Film Critics Circle Awards Director of the Year Steven SoderberghNominated
Actress of the Year Julia RobertsWon
British Supporting Actor of the Year Albert FinneyWon
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards [59] Best Director Steven Soderbergh (also for Traffic )Won
Best Actress Julia RobertsWon
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards [60] Best Contemporary Hair Styling in a Feature-Length Motion Picture Nominated
MTV Movie Awards [61] Best Movie Nominated
Best Female Performance Julia RobertsWon
Best Line"Bite My Ass, Krispy Kreme"Nominated
National Board of Review Awards [62] Best Director Steven Soderbergh (also for Traffic )Won
Best Actress Julia RobertsWon
National Festival of Dubbing Voices in the ShadowBest Female Voice (Film Award)Cristina Boraschi (for dubbing Julia Roberts)Nominated
Best Female Voice (Audience Award)Won
National Society of Film Critics Awards [63] [64] Best Director Steven Soderbergh (also for Traffic )Won
New York Film Critics Circle Awards [65] [66] Best Director Won
Online Film & Television Association Awards [67] Best PictureDanny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey SherNominated
Best DirectorSteven SoderberghNominated
Best ActressJulia RobertsNominated
Best Supporting ActorAlbert FinneyNominated
Best Original ScreenplaySusannah GrantNominated
Best Film EditingAnne V. CoatesNominated
Online Film Critics Society Awards [68] Top 10 Films10th Place
Best Actress Julia RobertsNominated
Best Supporting Actor Albert FinneyNominated
PEN Center USA West Literary Awards Best ScreenplaySusannah GrantNominated
Producers Guild of America Awards [69] Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey SherNominated
Political Film Society Awards Exposé Nominated
Human Rights Nominated
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards [70] Best Actress Julia RobertsWon [a]
Satellite Awards [71] Best Motion Picture – Drama Nominated
Best Director Steven SoderberghNominated
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Julia RobertsNominated
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Albert FinneyNominated
Best Original Screenplay Susannah GrantNominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards [72] Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Julia RobertsWon
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Albert FinneyWon
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards [73] Best Picture9th Place
Teen Choice Awards [74] Choice Movie ActressJulia RobertsWon
Writers Guild of America Awards [75] Best Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen Susannah GrantNominated

American Film Institute recognition:

Accuracy

On her website, Brockovich says the film is "probably 98% accurate". [78] While the general facts of the story are accurate, there are some minor discrepancies between actual events and the movie, as well as a number of controversial and disputed issues more fundamental to the case. In the film, Erin Brockovich appears to deliberately use her cleavage to seduce the water board attendant to allow her to access the documents. Brockovich has acknowledged that her cleavage may have had an influence, but denies consciously trying to influence individuals in this way. [79] In the film, Ed Masry represents Erin Brockovich in the car crash case. In reality, it was his law partner, Jim Vititoe. [80] Brockovich had never been Miss Wichita; she had been Miss Pacific Coast. According to Brockovich, this detail was deliberately changed by Soderbergh as he thought it was "cute" to have her be beauty queen of the region from which she came. [79] The "not so good employee" who met Brockovich in the bar was Chuck Ebersohl. He told Erin about the documents that he and Lillian Melendez had been tasked by PG&E to destroy. [81]

George Halaby, played by Aaron Eckhart in the film, along with Brockovich's ex-husband Shawn Brown, alleged that she had an affair with Masry. They also attempted to file a lawsuit against her for $310,000. [82] Halaby was arrested and the lawyer John Jeffrey Reiner was suspended from practicing, convicted of extortion, and later disbarred. [82] [83] [4]

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