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Language. English. Budget. $75 million. Box office. $56 million. 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 ...
- $56 million
- December 25, 1998
- $75 million
- Danny Elfman
Jan 8, 1999 · With John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy. A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing several children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career.
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- Drama
- Steven Zaillian
- 1999-01-08
Summaries. A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing several children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career. Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious lawyer, is addressed by a group of families.
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James Gordon. Željko Ivanek. Bill Crowley. Watchlist. TRAILER. Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. In this legal thriller based on a true story, John Travolta stars as Jan Schlichtmann, a...
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- Steven Zaillian
- PG-13
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Jan 8, 1999 · Reviews. A Civil Action. Roger Ebert January 08, 1999. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "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.
A Civil Action is a 1995 non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. The case is Anderson v. Cryovac.
Dec 25, 1998 · Overview. Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything—including his career and his clients' goals—in order to continue the case against all odds.
