A Civil Action

Erin Brockovich meets The Verdict. A personal-injury lawyer stumbles on a Massachusetts case of childhood leukemia that seems to point to industrial pollution. John Travolta leads this righteous-underdog story, a sober, almost documentary-like treatment of a legal system that grinds down the little guy.

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Steven Zaillian directed A Civil Action in 1998. See Steven Zaillian's full filmography, where to start with Steven Zaillian, or where to go after you've seen everything by Steven Zaillian.

A Civil Action was released in 1998 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 115 minutes.