Corporate Arrogance. Raw language conveys Erin Brockovich's sentiments to whomsoever she addresses.

Rating: Null/10 (22 April 2000)

Frightening opening and subsequent scenes.
Pay attention to the waitress in the restaurant scene at the beginning of this frightening but entertaining movie. She is Erin Brockovich!

Fortunately, the judgments made by the adjudicators in this case were sympathetic in redressing the incredibly stupid behavior of the CPUC regulated corporate giant PG&E. If that had not happened, we would never have seen or known about this corporate misbehavior at every employee, management, officer level.
You can see that this was a cost driven operation which neglected to install costly liners in the hexavalent chromium containment ponds to safeguard life. PG&E touted the health benefits of chromium to the residents of Hinkley even though residents and employees were suffering nosebleed after nosebleed. PG&E's officer team, public relations group and legal staff should have been banished to the unlined chromium ponds of Hinkley until this contaminated site had been decontaminated.
To its credit, PG&E attempted to keep the explosive lid on this scandalous issue by compensating the afflicted by buying their land and paying their medical bills. To its discredit, it didn't rectify the contamination and tried to bury and shred evidence that it knew that it existed.
PG&E stated that this is a dramatization of an event which happened and that it regrets that it did happen.
As it is or was, PG&E was slapped on the hands for its behavior.
What if the legal system had ruled otherwise? Then this movie may not have been made and would not have been as riveting.