Jiggling Justice

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 2002)

Erin Brockovich is a modern day David and Goliath movie, starring Julia Roberts, her cleavage, and 101 streetwalker outfits. After Erin's bumbling small time lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), loses her personal injury lawsuit, she is back to her cockroaches, macaroni and cheese, and the unemployment lines. Erin manipulates the lawyer into a job at his law practice. The foulmouthed mother of three proves that a major corporation, Pacific Gas and Electric, is poisoning the small town of Hinkley's water supply. After a lot of hard work, no family life, and insulting everyone in her path, she wins the victims 330 million dollars and herself a hefty two million dollar bonus. It was very similar to A Civil Action, also based on a true story, starring John Travolta. Travolta portrayed a tort lawyer representing eight families whose children died from leukemia after two large corporations dumped chemicals into the water supply in Woburn, Massachusetts. Erin Brockovich is a movie that does not rely on special effects, violence, or car chases to hold our interest. The movie is not as much about the courtroom battle with PG&E as it is with the battles that Erin was facing in everyday life, a single uneducated working class mother raising three kids on her own in a very uncooperative world. It is a movie that inspires Americans to believe in the system again. Erin Brockovich teaches us, that we can all make a difference in this world. All we have to do is try.