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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.
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 Jonathan Harr, it tells the true story of ...
- $56 million
- December 25, 1998
- $75 million
- Danny Elfman
Jan 8, 1999 · Jonathan Harr. "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.
Nov 3, 2023 · Jessica Scott. | Certified Educator. Last Updated November 3, 2023. Introduction. Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action is based on the true story of the 1986 court case Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc., and...
Feb 27, 2024 · "A Civil Action" Summary. In 1976, at the age of four, Robbie Robbins was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. He became one 28 children who contracted the disease between 1964 and 1986 in Woburn, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb of 35,000 people.
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.
Plot summary. After finding that her child is diagnosed with leukemia, Anne Anderson notices a high prevalence of leukemia, a relatively rare disease, in her city. Eventually she gathers other families and seeks a lawyer, Jan Schlichtmann, to consider their options.