A Civil Action
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...
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24 March 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
23 October 1961, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
December 10, 1988 in Los Angeles County, California, USA
5 January 1931, San Diego, California, USA
16 May 1960, Houston, Texas, USA
13 January 1957, New York City, New York, USA
21 September 1960, Syracuse, New York, USA
28 February 1950, Arlington, Virginia, USA
17 July 1956, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
26 June 1958, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
24 May 1978, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
19 October 1945, Rochester, New York, USA
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.
February 09, 2006
Delivering the verdict two thirds into the movie is anti-climactic, while Schlichtmann's belated atonement feels beside the point.
January 01, 2000
A slick, shameless job that takes way too long to make its point (namely, we need the EPA).
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.
November 22, 2009
This is a case in which the material really is better served in book form.
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.
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.
July 30, 2007
The movie becomes one more David-and-Goliath morality play.
February 05, 2005
... hints at the complex moral issues that vein the story.
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.
February 28, 2005
the film is slightly overlong and the ending is anti-cathartic.
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.
