“Imagine that your 10-year-old boy died after a long and painful illness. Now imagine you learned that illness might have been caused by poison that was improperly disposed of by your neighbor. You would probably be outraged. You would probably demand that the district attorney bring a charge of third-degree murder, or at least manslaughter, against the culprit.
Now imagine that your 10-year-old child died after a long and painful illness and it turns out the neighbor described above is a large corporation. And your only option is to bring a civil action against the firm… “
TRAILER - http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/174234/A-Civil-Action/trailers
The next movie we are going to watch on “The Film Project” is “A Civil Action” by Steven Zaillian, with John Travolta and Robert Duvall. That’s a film based on a true story and is much different from all the courtroom dramas we’ve seen on “The Film Project” so far. We’re going to watch it in the end of January, probably 24th Jan.
YOU CAN READ MORE about the movie on:
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thefilmproject // January 22, 2008 at 11:31 pm
We’re going to watch “A Civil Action” on Thursday (24th Jan) at the same time as always - 6pm.
Filip Wejman // January 24, 2008 at 11:05 pm
It was less conventional than I expected. More bitter. Almost until the end I though it was going the usual way as most American lawyer films. I was sure that by the end of the day everything would be all right, the plaintiffs and their lawyers would rejoice.
Professor Nesson was not in the movie. But in reality he took part in the case as one of the co-counsels for plaintiffs. Here he comments his disillusions: http://www.lclark.edu/~lotl/volume5issue1/nesson.html.
Thank you Paulina Marcickiewicz for organizing another good event for the Film Project: the screening of the film, and the set of documents from the case!
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