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- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 13, 1999
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Walt Disney Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Travolta & Robert Duvall | |
Performer: | Stephen Fry, James Gandolfini, Dan Hedaya, Željko Ivanek, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, Kathleen Quinlan, Tony Shalhoub, Sydney Pollack, Mary Mara, David Thornton, Ned Eisenberg, Paul Ben-Victor, Daniel von Bargen, Margot Rose, Michael Byrne, Tracy Miller, Paul Hewitt, Clayton Landey, Alan Wilder, Josh Pais, Haskell V. Anderson, Kaiulani Lee, Denise Y. Dowse, Robert Cicchini, Kevin Fry, Brian Turk, David Barrett, Ryan Janis, Gene Wolande, Juliana Donald, John Lafayette, Charles Levin & Jay Patterson | |
Directed by | Steven Zaillian | |
Edited by | Wayne Wahrman | |
Screenplay by | Steven Zaillian | |
Composition by | Danny Elfman | |
Cinematography by | Conrad L. Hall | |
Art Direction by | David Bomba & John R. Jensen | |
Story by | Jonathan Harr | |
Produced by | Robert Redford, Rachel Pfeffer & Scott Rudin | |
Executive Production by | David Wisnievitz & Steven Zaillian |
Entertainment Reviews:
Delivering the verdict two thirds into the movie is anti-climactic, while Schlichtmann's belated atonement feels beside the point.
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Time Out
Rating: 5/10 --
the film is slightly overlong and the ending is anti-cathartic.
Draxblog Movie Reviews
...Elegantly stylized and crisply edited, the film also features a host of fine performances....[With] excellent work from composer Danny Elfman...
Box Office
...A CIVIL ACTION is a whale of a tale about justice gone wrong...
Rolling Stone
I expected a harder hitting indictment against the uncaring power of corporate America. Instead, we get a middlin' courtroom drama that lacks the intensity of such films as the 1982 Sidney Lumet/Paul Newman film, The Verdict.
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Reeling Reviews
Rating: 2.5/4 --
This is a case in which the material really is better served in book form.
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TV Guide
...A CIVIL ACTION is like John Grisham for grownups....[The film is] about the gulf between skill and justice...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious young lawyer, is confronted with the litigation of a lifetime in this unbelievable real-life story. Several families in the small town of Woburn, Massachusetts, have suffered the tragic losses of their children to the rare cancer known as leukemia. After having their claim rejected by most law firms in town, these citizens approach Schlichtmann with the possibility that the deaths of their children may have had to do with Woburn's drinking water supply being contaminated by a couple of local businesses. The rub lies in the fact that these businesses are offshoots of two of the most powerful national corporations in the country! Schlichtmann must push his skill and craftiness as a lawyer to the limit in order to oust his opponents, who are working with a limitless bankroll. Based on the great fact-based novel.
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- Sales Rank: 34,785
- UPC: 717951001917
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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