{movie} a civil action (1998)

In this true story, John Travolta stars as a personal-injury lawyer who sues a major corporation for big bucks when the drinking water in Woburn, Mass., is found to contain high levels of industrial solvents. Believing the contamination is responsible for the large number of leukemia deaths among the town's children, the citizens -- lead by a woman (Kathleen Quinlan) whose child has died -- hire a lawyer to take on the corporate polluters.

ireviewnetflix.com rating: ** It was too long and kind of boring. It also wasn't John Travolta's finest work either. Erin Brockovich was a better movie about a company covering up deaths they caused with chemicals and someone taking on the company. I'd rather see a documentary about this subject instead of the movie.