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Summary: Not bad at all....
Review: I am not a huge fan of Julia Roberts, but in this movie she acted like I have never seen before. To tell you the truth, she really deserved that Oscar. Most of the time you would see her in those cheesy comedies; however, in this movie she showed that she had the true talent of a great actress. All in all, great performance deserves a great honor.
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Summary: BAD!!!
Review: I intially had high hopes for this movie even though i hate Julie Roberts. The movie starts off nicely for the first 25 minutes as it establishes its trash talking heroine. Then it goes way down hill into boredom. The direction is great of course but that cant always save a bad movie with a bad actress. The fact that she won an Oscar has almost destroyed my faith in the academy. Any other of the nominees did better then she did. I cant believe Sodeberg actually wanted to do this movie. I think he did it just to have a hit so he can do more independent projects. BUt i forgive him for this as he earlier did "The Limey" and redeemed himself by doing Traffic in the fall of that year. Julia should stick to Romantic Comedies.
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Summary: Get up and Cheer movie
Review: This is a great movie - filled with some of the best dialogue in a long while. Julia Roberts does a wonderful job! There are scenes in this film which stay with you long after the credits roll and it is one of those movies where the good guy wins and you want to cheer. If you are hedging on whether or not to get this - go ahead. You'll be delighted!
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Summary: An original story idea, well-executed
Review: This is something of an oddity. A story based on real life which isn't about high drama. There's no desperate missions to liberate Nazi art treasures or courtroom custody battles over polio-stricken children. However director Soderbergh makes sure every ounce of tension is wrung from this seemingly unromantic plot. I watched this movie having already heard the whole plot on the radio, and it didn't spoil my enjoyment of the piece. Julia Roberts is in one of her best roles, making the rather strident character she plays likeable and identifiable with. Albert Finney provides fine support as the gruff American lawyer, and thoroughly deserved is Best Supporting Actor nomination. The pathos is overdone in some of the scenes featuring ill children, and the romance subplot seems a little unresolved, but - hey, it's based on the truth, and not everything works out well in real life... or maybe it does!
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Summary: Eh, stereotypical Julia Roberts film
Review: This is another stereotypical Julia Roberts film, where she is an outcast or not accepted by society, and in this case that is because she is a single mother of three children, who starts off jobless. She eventually weasles her way into a job at a law firm collecting information. Then like a stereotypical Julia movie she capture's everyone's attention (with her body and charm) while staying on track with her goal of one day becoming famous... and helping her own situation. The situation in this movie is that while working for the law firm she stumbles upon a huge problem caused by a company dumping chemicals into a town's water supply which has been making everyone seriously ill for years. Anyway we all know how it ends, she busts the badguys, gets popularity and fame... The reason as to why this movie won an oscar is not because of Julia's great acting, but rather, because this movie tugged at your heart hearing the stories of those ill from the water contamination.
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I loved Julia Roberts in this role! it was refreshing to see her play a different type of charachter, in this case based on a real life person! This is such a heart felt, touching story because of the work that Erin and Ed did to make such a difference to so many people. Things like this happen all the time, unfortunately, and all too often there is no one to help them. This is the story of how you really can make a difference, not saying it is easy, but it is possible! It also portrays life on the inside for this single mother and is honest in the hardships which are sometimes faced in our lives. Very good movie- one to watch again & again- don't delay, buy it today!
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Summary: Reminds me of one or two women I've known
Review: Much-touted, much-praised, much-starred Erin Brockovich was a movie I was keeping for a lonely night at home, when I could rent it. To my disappointment, I discovered that Julia Roberts plays an extremely arrogant and mouthy lead character. Like the snotty girls who looked gorgeous in high school, but who thought themselves a cut above the rest of the merely plain or downright ugly masses, Roberts delivers a Brockovich who is foul-mouthed, contemptous, and demanding. I thought Dirty Dancing was bad and Terms of Endearment even worse, for portraying angry, demanding, self-pitying women who are continual victims of male exploitation or indifference; this movie tops them both.
Fortunately there is the relief of the exquisite actor Albert Finney. Even his character is dominated by Roberts's Brockovich, but he at least manages to stand up for himself and explain the facts of life as a hard-working, simple-living, honest lawyer who has had to scrape and save in order to create a life for himself and his family.
The movie begins with Brockovich as the single mother of three children, a plight toward which anyone would be sympathetic, trying to secure work and keep her children safe at the same time. However, it gardually begins to dawn on the viewer that every character around Brockovich is either shallow, mean-spirited, or ugly. The babysitter is uncaring. The working world is unsympathetic. When she is injured, her lawyer (Finney) fails to secure her financial future through an injury lawsuit, even though Brockovich, in testifying as plaintiff, exhibits ubelievable rudeness, profanity, and accusatory behavior, against the advice of her counsel. Eventually, she browbeats Finney into employing her, to supposedly compensate her for his failure to win her case. On the job, she immediately alienates her co-workers, but in the movie, the subtext is not that Brockovich has been rude, which she has, but that her co-workers are stupid and ugly! There are more "oh poor little girl" scenarios offered in conversations that recall events prior to the setting of the plot. If the movie Patch Adams was too sweet in portraying one heart-tugging scenario after another, with the big bad world of corporate medicine as the villain, this movie is equally over-laden with attempts to portray the protagonist as a victim. What is truly amazing, however, is that all of this pathos surrounding the persona of Erin Brockovich has absolutely nothing to do with the principal story of the movie!
Eventually, Brockovich begins to emerge as the champion of the rights of the ordinary citizen against the corporate interests which have contaminated their environment and lied to them about it. That is the theme of the movie and it is a fine story. Apparently based on reality, the inspirational value of the events has wonderful potential to make a fine, "All-American hero" plot, and with the added value of having a female hero. While that is still the core of the movie, the surrounding events, in which Brockovich browbeats, profanes, and dominates all of the males in her proximity, while scorning the women, drown out the essentially wonderful storyline.
It is possible that the real Erin Brockovich is actually like that; perhaps Julia Roberts was only depicting the character realistically. It is also possible and plausible that the real Brockovich, precisely because of her personality (if this performance actually reflects her personality), had the tenacity and fighting spirit to take on such a Goliath as the utility company, and that a more polite and well-integrated person (e.g. Finney) might not have had the "hutzpah" to do it. Nevertheless, trying to make an inspirational movie, one that chould be Sunday evening family fare, is defeated by the frequent use of expletives and a generally rude and obnoxious protagonist. I would have preferred a little airbrushing of the lead character's personality, even if it meant fudging on the literal truth.
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Summary: Highly Overrated
Review: Julia Roberts won an Oscar for this??????? She can't act and this movie was tremendously overrated. Definitely skip this one.
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Summary: Too much attitude
Review: The story was fascinating. The more I followed it, the more intrigued I was with the workings of the big unethical corporation. What I did not care for was Julia Roberts as Erin Brokovich. Was Ms Brokovich really that much of a b****? I felt no compassion for her. But then, I guess Erin Brokovich doesn't want anyone's compassion. I'm the first to admit that I'm jealous of Julia Roberts' success as an actress. But when she plays aggressive, obnoxious characters and then gets Oscars, magazine covers with that big, grinning face, and praise as a result, I get irritated. I look forward to the next embarrassing National Inquirer cover with her on it. She has almost as much attitude as Shaft.
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Summary: Julia on her game again!
Review: Julia Roberts plays a sensational role as a single mom struggling to make ends meet. This movie is provactive and jovial at the same time. It shows how human nature can persevere when dedicated to an end result. This movie is an excellent family movie with the excception of the vulgarity. It hits home and gives you a warm feeling by the end. Robert's character invokes attachment from the viewer. You side with her from the get go and for most of us in the world can totally relate to her problems. Erin finds herself in a car accident and sees the pot at the end of the rainbow. But her pot is not as large as she had hoped. Desperate and near destitute she enlists the help of her lawyer... and from here watch out because your gonna go for a ride. Definitely a must see !!
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