Erin Brockovich , a precarious secretary of a law firm and a 30-year-old mother of three, sentimentally free after two divorces, investigates the Pacific Gas and Electric Company , which has contaminated the aquifers of Hinkley, a Californian town, causing cancer to residents. This is the true story of Erin Brokovich, told in Steven Soderbergh’s film of the same name. Based on a true story, the film was nominated for 5 Academy Awards 2001 and earned the Oscar to the extraordinary Julia Roberts. The true story The story is based on a true story . Erin Brockovichand a single woman, after two divorces, with three children, unemployed, who by chance meets the lawyer Masry (Finney), who, out of compassion for the woman’s precarious economic situation, hires her as a secretary in his Los Angeles law firm. The young woman, without a law degree, is interested in a case of real estate bought by a Californian company . What is striking about Brockovich is the fact that many of the tenants of those buildings are suffering from serious diseases: from cancer to leukemia. Soon, the young secretary realizes that the company interested in buying those houses, near some chemical plants, is the PGE, which deals with water. More surprisingly, from a research in the archive, he discovers that chromium (a highly toxic chemical substance if not controlled, used as an antirust) is present in the water of the surrounding region with such a high percentage as to be the cause of the diseases of the inhabitants. READ ALSO: Mona Lisa Smile, the most beautiful phrases of the film with Julia Roberts The battle in court
The battle in court will see the small private practice facing each other, with a lawyer on the threshold of retirement and a girl not even graduated, against a colossus who invoices 30 millions of dollars annually. The case was settled in 1996 for $ 333 million, the largest compensation ever paid in a lawsuit in US history .An environmental icon
The film featuring Roberts as a gift to Brockovich fame and popularity, become a heroine of today. It was Erin Brockovich herself who defined herself “an icon of the twentieth century”. She is now the president of Brockovich Research & Consulting, and she continues to fight for various environmental causes around the world. The cameo The
real Erin Brockovich appears in a cameo in the film. It is the waitress Julia, a tribute to Roberts, who serves the protagonist and her children at a restaurant table. Behind the Hollywood star is an elderly man intent on reading the menu. This is the real Ed Masry, the lawyer with whom Erin Brockovich actually worked. The longest speech
In 2001 Julia Roberts won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Erin Brockovich – Strong as the Truth by Steven Soderbergh. “Sir he’s doing a great job, and really fast with that wand, why don’t you sit down for a while.
Because I may never go up on this stage again.” Thus begins the actress, addressing the conductor of the orchestra, aware that her speech will go out of time. Incredulous and full of joy, Roberts step into the history of the Oscars for her speech of over 4 minutes in which I thank dozens of people (but forgetting to thank the real Erin Brockovic), then letting go of a laugh “I love being on this stage ! I love the world! I am so happy! Thanks!”.
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