Surprising audience pleaser.

Rating: 8/10 (16 March 2000)

"Erin Brockovich" is great Hollywood entertainment. It's nice to go to a movie and not have to become to cerebral in describing how much you enjoyed it. I also love going to the movies when the audience actually cheers the screen.
Julia Roberts gives one of her best performances ever as the bimbo law clerk who helps uncover and win one of the biggest class action suits in US history. And Albert Finney is terrific in his Oscar worthy performance as the owner of the small, slightly sleazy Southern California law firm that Erin works for.
Director Soderbergh knows his audience and works the film in a way that plays out as pure entertainment, not unlike Out of Sight.
Plenty of cinematic fun which is sure to place another diamond in Julia's screen queen crown.
8 of 10