Erin Brockovich is a 2000 biographical film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film is a dramatization of the story of Erin Brockovich, played by Julia Roberts, who fought against the US West Coast energy corporation Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Roberts won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors' Guild Award and BAFTA for Best Actress. The film itself was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Director for Steven Soderbergh at the 73rd Academy Awards. It is based on a true story, and the real Erin Brockovich has a cameo appearance around 9'10" as a waitress named Julia, her... first name being Roberts' first name. In 1993, Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother of three children who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in, asks her lawyer, Edward L. Masry , if he can find her a job in compensation for the loss. Ed gives her work as a file clerk in his office, and she runs across some files on a pro bono case involving medical records in real-estate files and PG&E offering to purchase the home of Hinkley, California, resident Donna Jensen.
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| Release date: | March 14, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Steven Soderbergh |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 131 Minutes |
| Producer: | Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher |
| Editor: | Anne V. Coates |
| Music by: | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography: | Edward Lachman |
| Screenplay by: | Susannah Grant |
| Estimated budget: | $51,000,000 |