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A Civil Action
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A Civil Action is a drama film which was directed by Steven Zaillian, that stars John Travolta and Robert Duvall, and that is based on the book by Jonathan Harr.The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove...
A Civil Action is a drama film which was directed by Steven Zaillian, that stars John Travolta and Robert Duvall, and that is based on the book by Jonathan Harr.The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove...
Actors:
Lisa Rhyne,
Rob McElhenney,
Charles Levin,
Robert Steven Anderson,
Ned Eisenberg,
Caroline Carrigan,
Margot Rose
Lisa Rhyne
Rob McElhenney
14 April 1977, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Charles Levin
12 March 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Robert Steven Anderson
Ned Eisenberg
13 January 1957, New York City, New York, USA
Caroline Carrigan
26 June 1958, New York City, New York, USA
Margot Rose
17 July 1956, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Genre:
Drama
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#A Civil Action #John Travolta #Kathleen Quinlan #Paramount Pictures #Robert Duvall #Steven Zaillian #Touchstone Pictures #Wildwood Enterprises
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Draxblog Movie Reviews
February 28, 2005
the film is slightly overlong and the ending is anti-cathartic.July 30, 2007
The movie becomes one more David-and-Goliath morality play.February 14, 2001
As proficient a job as writer-director Steve Zaillian and his team do, A Civil Action has unmistakably unraveled by its close.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
February 05, 2005
... hints at the complex moral issues that vein the story.January 01, 2000
Schlichtmann may have gone through this conversion in real life, but I just didn't buy it the way Zaillian presents it.November 22, 2009
This is a case in which the material really is better served in book form.
Variety
June 01, 2006
Based on a true story, this is an intelligent legal thriller, very much in the mode of 1970s issue-oriented films, that may be too subtle and complex for the damands of today's market.December 06, 2005
While Travolta is passable as Schlichtmann, it is the outstanding work from Duvall, Macy and briefly Tony Shalhoub that drive the story.
New York Magazine/Vulture
January 01, 2000
I'm all for films that don't flow from the usual Hollywood test tubes, but A Civil Action is basically the standard formula with a dash of downbeat.April 09, 2005
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.February 09, 2006
Delivering the verdict two thirds into the movie is anti-climactic, while Schlichtmann's belated atonement feels beside the point.
Village Voice
January 01, 2000
A slick, shameless job that takes way too long to make its point (namely, we need the EPA).