Erin Brockovich (2000): She Remembered Every Name
Beth and Michelle step outside their usual comfort zone for Erin Brockovich, Steven Soderbergh’s dramatization of the fight against PG&E over the poisoning of Hinkley, California. Before discussing the film, they examine the real contamination, the families who continued suffering after the settlement, and the environmental disasters that corporations are allowed to hide in communities without the money or political power to fight back.
Erin begins as a broke single mother who is underestimated because of her clothes, education, divorces, and refusal to behave politely. What makes her…
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