Dark Waters (2019)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Robert Bilott	Mark Ruffalo
Sarah Bilott	Anne Hathaway	½
Tom Terp	Tim Robbins	½
Wilbur Tennant	Bill Camp
Phil Donnelly	Victor Garber
Darlene Kiger	Mare Winningham
Harry Deitzler	Bill Pullman
James Ross	William Jackson Harper
Karla	Louisa Krause

Review

In the career of independent filmmaker Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven, I'm Not There), his latest entry Dark Waters really stands out, seeing as it's not about sexuality and in many ways barely about human relations at all. Instead, Haynes goes digging for some long-hidden chemicals that DuPont, one of the world's largest chemical companies, had been stowing away since their invention of Teflon back in the 1930s. Mark Ruffalo plays Robert Bilott, the attorney who decided to pursue the matter, at the risk of his career, reputation and marriage. Dark Waters is classically constructed to a fault; in chronology, the use of intensifiers, the wife at home et cetera, but there's an inherent energy in this material that makes it weighty and sharp. Telling the tales about the little guys' fight against the bullying big guns not only ensures a good basis for an effective dramaturgy, it's also one of the fundamental functions of the arts.