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Summary: Wow!
Review: I was expecting an awesome movie from the moment I saw the trailer and I was completely wrong - this movie is amazing! Julia Roberts comes out sexy, tender, funny and feisty. Her best role ever in her whole entire career!Your gonna love Roberts as Erin Brockovich, a mother of 3 who has been divorced twice. She has $17 in her bank account and she is willing for a job. So who else to bother but her lawyer? She pleads for a job and gets it. Erin then goes investigating and finds real estate files are mixed with other stuff. Erin takes action and finds out the water system is making people ill in her small home-town. Un-missable, amazing, I am very sure Erin Brockovich will be on my 2000 Top 10. Totally sure.
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Summary: Heartwarming and Real!
Review: "Erin Brockovich" is like a cross between a "Sixty Minutes" expose and a standard Hollywood feelgood movie. Based on a true story, it relates how single mom Brockovich talks herself into a paralegal job at a small law firm and stumbles across a major cover-up involving industrial pollution by mega-utility Pacific Gas & Electric. Without much formal education but with street smarts and nerve, she researches, interviews the town residents, and slowly gets the big utility by the you-know-whats. Julia Roberts does a brilliant job as the individualistic Erin, who refused to dress for success. She tended to show too much leg and too much, um, bosom. "They're called BOOBS, Ed," the script has Roberts informing her boss when he gapes too openly. And they open doors for her! Albert Finney is also wonderful as Erin's hapless boss. In fact, the whole production is wonderful and so heartwarming you almost have to pinch yourself to believe that it's a real story.
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Summary: Good, yes but also a bit slow.
Review: Julia gives a very strong performance in this movie. Oscar Winning, not quite but one can really see true character in this film. Albert Finney is credible in a supporting role. However, the story just drags on in spots when excess development is just not needed. Overall I will admit that the movie gives you an appreciacion for those people whos tand up for others who are taken advantage of by big impersonal corporations.
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Summary: A real answer to American Beauty and Magnolia
Review: That's It! A Great,moving,exquisite movie that shows that there are courageous,strong,passionate and deep motivated human beings who fight for what they believe!A movie full of humour,drama,passion and athmosphere.Our heroine fights Big Polluting Corporation whit intelligence,perseverance,and...a bit of lewinsky method (you can't have it all).What I like most is that a gorgeous woman whit a body to die for... wins whit her brains.It lacked a Paul Newman or Harrison Ford...but,again,you can't have it all.Julia Roberts deserves an Oscar,in my opinion.
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Summary: GOOD MOVIE!
Review: This movie was the best movie of this year, I must say. JuliaRoberts played Erin perfectly... Julia has her down to a dime! If youcan, see this movie ASAP.
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Summary: Julia's masterpiece
Review: I have always respected Julia Roberts for being a talented actress. For the past few years, she seemed to be stereotyped playing the nice girl around the block type or forgettable role as she's done in "Pretty Woman", " Best Friend's Wedding", "Runaway Bride" and "Hook" respectively. I'm adamant that she could do better considering that she had handled heavier roles before as she had done in "Sleeping with the Enemy", "Pelican's Brief", "Conspiracy Theory". Obviously, the best has yet to come. "Erin Brockovich" is every inch a Julia Robert's movie. All the punch lines were hers, and she dominated most of the screen time. Her presence is undeniable & unmistakble. My friends reckoned that the movie was so-so but I thoroughly enjoyed watching Julia Robert playing "Erin Brockovich". Rather than resorting to typical Hollywood feel good ending with over-the-top soundtrack, & the common people cheering to the Court's judgement, this movie took a subtle approach, having Erin Brockovich breaking the verdict to one of her clients at the front porch & having her accepting the verdict with quiet joy, a triumph which was savoured with dignity. True, this is a David versus Goliath movie but a movie that's executed with style & sheer punch. I was disbelieved to be told subsequently that the real Erin Brockovich was in the movie playing a waitress with her name tag being "Julia". Get it? So, you have better watch out. Highly recommended. By the way, for your curiosity, the real Erin Brockovich just recently sued her bikie ex-boyfriend for extorting her, such a far cry from the bikie boyfriend in the movie who stood by her through those hard time. Wouldn't it be good if life could imitate art? Then, everybody is happy.
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Summary: The best Julia Roberts ever
Review: This is the best new movie I've seen in months! A well-told story, well-composed structure, straight-forward filming technique, and above all: brilliant acting. I never thought Julia Roberts was a great actor - but in »Erin Brockovich«, she plays very, very good! So does her boss Albert Finney. Both worth at least nominations for some of the big awards. The story sounds the same as in sooo many other movies: the little chanceless individual against the big bad moneymakers. But in »Erin Brockovich«, the movie makers kept themselves from exaggerated scenes of threat, action and weapons. Bravo!
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Summary: Absolutely Fantastic !
Review: Erin Brockovich was so great that everyone at the movie theatre was clapping for it. It is a highly reccomended movie. I would reccomend it to people who are older that 12 or they might not understand what exactly it was about. It is a very sophisticated movie that has many great jokes included in it without spoiling the actual movie. Julia Roberts gets out of her usual dopey act into a very adult like movie. I am only 13 years old and I really enjoyed it. I DEFINATELY reccomend it!
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Summary: THE MORAL AMBIGUITY OF A T.V. MOVIE
Review: Erin Brokovich pretends to be a legal drama but does not come close to being one. It pretends to be a family drama, but has no more insight then your average magazine article. What it is a passably entertainig, stylishly made showcase for decent but superficial performances. I know not many people will agree with this, but Steven Zallian's 1998 film A Civil Action was a masterpiece for every reason it is different from this one. That movie was drenched with moral ambiguity, it was never clear who was good and who was bad, all its character were lost in a sea of legal manovuering and legal tactics that left all of them looking positively grey. In one towering scene between Duvall and Travolta they sit in the corridor and decide the fates of others. "We are kings" says Duvall at one point. Erin Brokovich doesn't even attempt to explore such moral depths. Indeed the phrase "David and Goliath" is used repeatedly in this film, and in the process explaining what this film is about completely. It maybe based on a true story, but so are those soulless T.V. movies, and like those it feels positively fake. When it does attempt depth, like the scene where a father stands alone in a junk yard shouting at the sunset, I was wondering if the projectionist had accidently slipped in a shot from another movie. Ofcourse these are precisely the reasons its so popular with audiences, and unlike A Civil Action, the ending is happy, cheerful and reassuring. This is unfortunate because anybody who knows the films of Steven Soderbergh, knows how daring and original his films usually are, particulary the masterful OUT OF SIGHT 1998 and KING OF THE HILL 1993. This is a huge step down for him, making a predictable story such as this. His terrific visuals don't mean much when serving cliche. I suppose the acting can be considered good. Lots of show offy stuff, great one liners, lots of swearing, basically a good show. But the fake feeling of the film makes the performances just that, a show, with no real pain to back it up. This movie would make a passable rental then, but nothing more. Watch this film back to back with A Civil Action and see the difference between a real complicated soul searching film and crowd pleasing nonsense.
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Summary: Julia Roberts Shines!
Review: Steven Soderbergh has done more than prove he is a good director, and this was a srange career move for him, it's not like his other movies. While formulaic, the movie is extremely entertaining and features a powerhouse performance by Julia Roberts also with comic relief by Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart was also good in support. The wardrobe is distracting but necessary, both to keep the audience interested and to show us how the real Erin Brockovich dressed. The screenplay is OK, but at times too sarcastic. Great performances and good direction by Soderbergh make this one more than entertaining. Extras: the real Erin Brockovich appears as a waitress. From a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a 7!
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