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Julia Roberts won the Best Actress Oscar for her commanding performance as the real-life legal assistant taking on a power company that poisoned a small California town. The film received nominations for Best Picture (Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher, producers), Steven Soderbergh’s direction (he won that same year for Traffic, in competition with himself), Susannah Grant’s original screenplay, and the supporting performance of Albert Finney as attorney Ed Masry, part of the expert cast chosen by Soderbergh and casting director Margery Simkin. Additional inspired casting decisions came via Marg Helgenberger as an ailing plaintiff and Aaron Eckhart as Roberts’s biker love interest.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2000 | 131 min. | USA | Color | English | Rated R | 4K DCP
DIRECTED BY: Steven Soderbergh
WRITTEN BY: Susannah Grant
WITH: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger