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Summary: Erin Brockovich
Review: This has to be one of Julia Robert's best films ever. I loved her portrayal of a gutsy single mom raising three kids on her own. It is a feel good movie with humour and sensitivity. The real Ms. Brockavich must be a fantastic person.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: Julia Roberts does a knock out performance in this movie as real life Erin Brokovich. She looks and acts stunning and this is a definate feel good movie. Check it out!
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Summary: Erin Broochovich
Review: Its not about attitude,money or law...it's abot life!!!!!GOBSMACKED!!!!
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Summary: High heel crusader
Review: Julia gives a 5 star performance as earthy Erin Brockovich, a woman committed to improving her life and those of her local community against the corruption of big business. It's a familiar theme but well handled by director Steven Soderberg, underplaying the obvious self- consciousness of Julia's transition from glamour queen to dramatic actress.
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Summary: The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
Review: I thought this was a great story and that Julia Roberts did a wonderfully convincing job playing the part of Erin Brockovich. The DVD version was well presented and the extra features were very enjoyable. I especially liked seeing the scenes that were cut and hearing the reasons those cuts were made. About the only negative is the language, which I assume is true to the real Erin, but it would make this movie unacceptable for younger audiences. All in all, it is a great story that is being told, one with many positive messages on how one person can really make a difference!
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Summary: OOPS SHE DID IT AGAIN
Review: I've been a fan of Julia's for as long as she has been making movies. She has truly grown up and is definitely one the hottest hollywood actresses of all time. In this movie she starts out looking for work, with no luck. Of course her woodrobe left a little to be desired (after all she was basing her roll on a true story). Then the accident, the lawyer promises she'll win (sound familiar?) but doesn't. She really fights to get any type of work, and forces her lawyer (the same one who promised she'd win) to give her job. If I tell much more about this movie you wouldn't want to see it because I have spoiled the ending. This is a definite must see movie. This is definitely an Oscar worthy performance for Julia and I look forward to her at the Oscar's as a nominee. I look forward to her next movie.
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Summary: JULIA'S BEST TO DATE
Review: I was genuinely surprised to find Julia Roberts, who is difficult not to enjoy in any movie, immersing herself into the role of Erin -- her entire body language is different, as is her demeanor. She deserves an Oscar nod for this rousing movie, which only sporadically becomes a Hollywood-ish version of the truth. The story, mostly true, is richly compelling, as are the characters of Erin, Ed (her boss, deftly played by an older, jollier Albert Finney) and George (Erin's too-good-to-be-true biker boyfriend, who is dashingly handsome beneath the ponytail). For all of her alarmingly, and entertainingly over the top costumes, Julia's personal beauty has never radiated with as many layers as it does in this terrific story of a "nobody" who has the guts, determination, pride and smarts to take on the Establishment in a big way. Her natural warmth works spectacularly well with the sad victims she tends to; the movie as a whole makes you want to cheer!
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Summary: Once again, it's Hollywood 1, Truth 0. . .
Review: Ok, so maybe I just don't get it. I guess that I'm in the extreme minority here -- but I didn't much care for the movie "Erin Brockovich". I didn't find Brockovich to be an admirable person, much less a hero, and I have grave disappointments concerning the fidelity of the movie to actual events. Item: Repeatedly throughout the movie, Ms. Brockovich is portrayed as "doing this for her children" or some similar line. Yet her home life was chaotic at best, her relationship with her kids was awful, and her relationship with her boyfriend (who actually DID seem to care for the kids) was also unimpressive. (She has since dumped him.) Item: The movie played fast and loose with the actual facts of the matter. In the months since the movie's release, numerous syndicated columnists have demonstrated scientific inaccuracies, fiscal irregularities as far as payments to "victims", exorbident attorney's fees, etc. Item: The heroic attorney figure has, in real life, not tended toward the highest examples of the ethics of his profession. He was a religious cult lawyer, an attorney FOR polluters, and was a convicted felon. Item: In real life, many residents of Hinckly are terribly bitter toward Brockovich. It's politically correct, nowadays, to bash large corporations as intrinsically evil. For that matter, it's also politically correct to promote "single mother makes good" themes. But the real facts of the story show that the movie heros aren't at all what they seem. But once again, Hollywood wins. The REAL victim is the truth.
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Summary: Wonderful performance by Roberts
Review: This film has something for everyone: If you're a guy, it has Roberts in skimpy clothing. If you're a girl, it has Roberts in skimpy clothing acting...and acting well. In a script that seems tailor-made for her, Julia Roberts makes the most out of being witty, quirky and beautiful. That this is based on a true-story is typically grounds for me to start groaning. Still, it had Roberts in skimpy clothing...so I bit. I'm glad I did. Albert Finney is a definite supporting Oscar favorite at this point and Julia should have a lock on a nomination as well (and should win the Globe for best comedic). The witty repartee between these two alone makes Brockovich a worthy film, but add in across-the-board solid acting by the rest of the supporting cast (including my favorite underused film actress, Cherry Jones) and you have a delightful film that should be the highlight of any dinner party you throw at home.
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Summary: A wonderful, brash and caring crowd-pleaser
Review: Erin Brockovich is such a wonderful movie, I really didn't find myself caring too much that it wasn't all that suprising. But while the story may be more than a little predictable for anyone who's ever seen, well, anything -- it's also a pretty great movie, is terrifically directed by Soderbergh, and is fueled by a wonderful, sassy, and complex performance by Julia Roberts. The DVD is a must, and offers some great extras as narrated by Soderbergh, as well as interviews with the real Brockovich, and a look at an alternate (and completely factual) storyline which was ultimately edited out from the film, and which shows that, for once, Hollywood actually toned DOWN the real events for their translation to film. My favorite things about "Brockovich" were the little touches -- the realistic look at the life of a struggling single mother who's this close to screaming in frustration, the wonderful supporting characters, and the way the wardrobe really seemed to provide Roberts with a completely new character than any other we've seen her play. Erin is loud, sassy, foul-mouthed, impatient, and rude. She's also a heck of a lot smarter and more compassionate than she lets on, and takes us on a great ride. Albert Finney is also equally wonderful as Erin's surprisingly caring boss -- there's a priceless scene where she gets him to let his hair down and do a little screaming, and Finney is just wonderful in it. Erin Brockovich is a great movie, a movie that redefines what the phrase crowd-pleaser is really supposed to mean. Sure, "A Civil Action," (which details a remarkably similar story) may be more pretentious, more "serious," even more surprising -- but I'd take a dozen Erin Brockoviches over "Civil Action" any day.
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