Become a member

Quick Registration

Full Registration Benefits -

Free Homepages for Doctors

Free Homepages for Hospitals

Free Homepages for Medical Conference

Free Homepages for NGO's

Personal Health Record Creation

Access to all Medical Slides

Access to all Jobs & Products Sale

Explore Medindia

Medindia » Entertainment Medical Theme » Movies with Medical Theme » Movies in English » Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

5
Rate	1 2 3 4 5
Thanks For Rating

Ratings : 5 /5 from 101 users

Language : English

Year : 2000

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart

Storyline : The film Erin Brockovich is a true story of a woman whose name is also the same as the film’s title. Erin is a single mother, with three children and without a job to run her family. It is under these circumstances she injures her neck in a car accident and while filing for a lawsuit, she gets to know Edward Masry, a successful lawyer. Masry hires Erin to work for him and soon she goes on to prove her worth by involving herself in various aspect of the firm’s activities and now Erin comes to know about how PG&E has polluted Hinkley’s (a small town) water supplies with hexavalent chromium and how the company has also successfully managed to keep the whole issue very quiet. Erin also comes to know about many people in the town who are affected by cancer and other serious illness, because of the toxic waste PG&E has polluted the town’s water supply with. So she decides to take on PG&E legally with the support of her boss, in what would become one of the biggest lawsuits in the history of the American legal system.

Related Links :

Women and Cancer
Quiz on Cancer
Must Know Top 12 Cancer Facts of the World

Movie Trailer :

<< Autumn In New York

Saving Private Ryan >>

Comment & Contribute

Comments should be on the topic and should not be abusive. Comments are normally moderated and are reviewed after they are posted.

* Your comment can be maximum of 2500 characters

I agree to the terms and conditions

If you have a question about health related issues, you can now post it in our Ask An Expert section on our community website Medwonders.com and get answers from our panel of experts.

Medical Themes

Search
By Name:

By Year

By Language:

Movies

The Basketball Diaries

Something the Lord Made

Celebrity Health Related News
	Michelle Obama: Name of Olive Tree in Italy	Beyonce: Most Beautiful Women in the World	Robin Gibb Recovers from Coma Wakes Up to Cancer	Botox and Vitamin Jabs Maintain Simon Cowell’s Young Looks	Victoria Beckham Hoping to Launch Lifestyle Website	Imogen Thomas “Shaking” After Bikram Yoga Session	Yuvraj Credits Lance Armstrong for Inspiring Him to Fight Cancer
Read More >>

Become a member

Health Encyclopedia A-Z

Health Topics A-Z

Health News A-Z

Drugs A-Z

Health Animations A-Z

Baby Names A-Z

Search Doctors by City/State A-Z

Erin Brockovich

Celebrity Health Related News

Consumers

Medical Professionals

Medical Students

Directories