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Jan 8, 1999 · Based On The Book by. "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.
Travolta's shortcomings are especially obvious in any of the scenes where he's opposite Robert Duvall, one of the greatest actors of his generation, who gives quite possibly his best supporting performance yet. The elder statesman simply blows Travolta out of the water. All that being said, A Civil Action is definitely a compelling story and ...
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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- Steven Zaillian
- PG-13
- John Travolta
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Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 3, 2024. Brilliantly understated performances, flashes of wit and a heartbreaking true story aren't quite enough to make this movie memorable. Full Review ...
Jan 8, 1999 · A Civil Action: Directed by Steven Zaillian. 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
Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. Brilliantly understated performances, flashes of wit and a heartbreaking true story aren't quite enough to make this movie memorable. A Civil Action works hard to give us some imaginative storytelling against a morality tale backdrop, not to mention some delicate character-building in the absence of any ...
The humor, though rare in the film, is mostly good. All in all, a pretty good courtroom drama, based on a true story, and a basic story of inexperienced against experienced, as they say in the featurette on the DVD. I recommend it to fans of courtroom dramas, and fans of any of the actors. 7/10.
