Erin Brockovich-Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover ****

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2009)

Other than "Pretty Woman," this was certainly the best Julia Roberts role ever and her Oscar was well-deserved.
Roberts immediately comes on screen as a bimbo with a brain who has had 2 failed marriages and is really down on her luck as she struggles to raise 3 children.
Fate has it that she meets up with an automobile accident and a lawyer, superbly played by Albert Finney, who she gets to hire her.
Loud, common and ready to use her beauty as another Stella Dallas, Erin (Julia) soon shows her mettle by uncovering a major scandal involving the use of chromium as toxic waste with the result that plenty of people were ill from using the contaminated water nearby.
Hardworking and caring, this undertaking changes Erin drastically. While she was a caring person with a foul mouth, she becomes much more mature as she works to have the gas and electric company found responsible for what has been occurring.
The picture brings out that hard work with a purpose and the ability to persevere will always pay off.
Besides a terrific supporting performance by Finney, Aaron Eckhardt is wonderful as her motor-cycle boyfriend who loves her and her children, but finds it increasing difficult to play second fiddle to a job that's rapidly consuming her.