A Civil Action (1998)

Directors

Steven Zaillian

Cast

John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek, Bruce Norris, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan, Peter Jacobson, Mary Mara, James Gandolfini, Stephen Fry, Dan Hedaya, David Thornton, Sydney Pollack, Ned Eisenberg, Margot Rose, Daniel von Bargen, Michael P. Byrne, Tracy Miller, Paul Hewitt, Clayton Landey, Paul Ben-Victor, Alan Wilder, Josh Pais, Haskell V. Anderson III, Kaiulani Lee, Denise Dowse, Robert Cicchini, Christopher Stevenson, Kevin Fry, Brian Turk, Rikki Klieman, Charlie Stavola, David Barrett, Rob McElhenney, Gene Wolande, Sam Travolta, Juliana Donald, Bruce Holman, John Lafayette, Charles Levin, Byron Jennings, Jay Patterson, Kathy Bates, John Franchi, Bryan Greenberg, Gary Rodriguez, Harry Dean Stanton

The story

Environmental toxicants in the city of Woburn, Massachusetts, contaminate the area's water supply and become linked to a number of deaths of local children. Cocky Boston attorney Jan Schlichtmann and his small firm of personal injury lawyers are asked by Woburn resident Anne Anderson to take legal action against those responsible. After originally rejecting a seemingly unprofitable case, Jan finds a major environmental issue involving groundwater contamination that has great legal potential and realizes the local tanneries could be responsible for several deadly cases of leukemia.

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