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Jan 8, 1999 · A Civil Action. "Civil Action" is like John Grisham for grownups. Watching it, we realize that Grisham's lawyers are romanticized hotshots living in a cowboy universe with John Wayne values. The real world of the law, this movie argues, has less to do with justice than with strategy and doesn't necessarily arrive at truth.
A Civil Action is a 1998 American legal drama film directed and written by Steven Zaillian and starring John Travolta with Robert Duvall, James Gandolfini, Dan Hedaya, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, Kathleen Quinlan, and Tony Shalhoub. Based on the 1995 book of the same name by Jonathan Harr, it tells the true story of a court case about ...
In this legal thriller based on a true story, John Travolta stars as Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious personal-injury attorney whose fierce determination entangles him in a case that threatens to ...
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Jan 7, 1999 · A Civil Action Review. A group of parents, whose children have died via pollution, enlist Jan Schlichtmann, a hot-shot lawyer to fight their case against two huge corporations. But Schlichtmann ...
The plot of "A Civil Action" is based on a true story of the successful personal injury "ambulance chaser" [Characters' words] lawyer, otherwise unfulfilled, secretly hoping for that one big case. The case he gets is unexpected and did cost him his livelihood, but apparently (as the entire movies' main action points are transferred between each ...
Director: Steven Zaillian Writer: Steven Zaillian based on the book by Johnathon Harr Starring: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H Macy Year: 1998 Runtime: 93 minutes
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Based on the non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr, Steven Zaillian’s A CIVIL ACTION is a vastly underrated & one of the most overlooked movies of 90s. An impeccably-written, deceptively complex and largely cliché-resistant courtroom procedural drama and a powerful moral fable, it holds up better than any of those Grisham adaptations.
