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A Civil Action
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Following the struggles of Jan Schlichtmann, an intelligent and aspiring lawyer, who takes on the mission of a company that throw its toxic garbage in the water, the thing that leads to the death of many children by leukemia, but in doing, so he finds himself in a fight against survival.
Following the struggles of Jan Schlichtmann, an intelligent and aspiring lawyer, who takes on the mission of a company that throw its toxic garbage in the water, the thing that leads to the death of many children by leukemia, but in doing, so he finds himself in a fight against survival.
Actors:
Bruce Norris,
Brian Turk,
Sayda Alan,
John Lithgow,
John Franchi,
Guy Richardson,
Tommy Bull
Bruce Norris
16 May 1960, Houston, Texas, USA
Brian Turk
Sayda Alan
John Lithgow
19 October 1945, Rochester, New York, USA
John Franchi
Guy Richardson
29 April 1954, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Tommy Bull
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#A Civil Action #John Travolta #Kathleen Quinlan #Paramount Pictures #Robert Duvall #Steven Zaillian #Touchstone Pictures #Wildwood Enterprises
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Village Voice
January 01, 2000
A slick, shameless job that takes way too long to make its point (namely, we need the EPA).November 22, 2009
This is a case in which the material really is better served in book form.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
February 05, 2005
... hints at the complex moral issues that vein the story.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.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.February 09, 2006
Delivering the verdict two thirds into the movie is anti-climactic, while Schlichtmann's belated atonement feels beside the point.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.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.
Draxblog Movie Reviews
February 28, 2005
the film is slightly overlong and the ending is anti-cathartic.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.
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.