Movie: A Civil Action (1998)

• Director: Steven Zaillian
• Release Date: 8 January 1999 (USA)
• Run Time: 115 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Drama  
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some strong language.

Tagline: Justice has its price.

Trivia: Steven Zaillian adapted the screenplay with nobody else but Robert Duvall in mind for the role of Jerome Facher.
 

Goofs: Continuity: At the end of the movie when the woman comes out on her front porch and picks up the newspaper, she removes the rubber band and looks at the top half of the paper. In the next cut she is looking at the bottom half of the paper and in the very next cut she is looking at the top half again.
 

“Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious lawyer, is addressed by a group of families. When investigating the seemingly non-profiting case, he finds it to be a major environmental issue that has a lot of impact potential. A leather production company could be responsible for several deadly cases of leukemia, but also is the main employer for the area. Schlichtmann and his three colleagues set out to have the company forced to decontaminate the affected areas, and of course to sue for a major sum of compensation. But the lawyers of the leather company’s mother company are not easy to get to, and soon Schlichtmann and his friends find themselves in a battle of mere survival. Written by Julian Reischl <julianreischl@mac.com>”