Erin Brockovich (2000)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Erin Brockovich	Julia Roberts	½
Edward L. Masry	Albert Finney	½
George	Aaron Eckhart
Donna Jensen	Marg Helgenberger
Charles Embry	Tracey Walter	-
Kurt Potter	Peter Coyote	-
Pamela Duncan	Cherry Jones	-
Shanna Jensen	Scarlett Pomers	-
Brenda	Conchata Ferrell	-

Review

Julia Roberts' feisty performance spearheads this fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable film about Erin Brockovich, an uneducated single mother of obvious resource who cracked her way into a job in a law firm and then cracked a big corporate liability case. The picture is engaging both because of the depiction of Brockovich's persona and for the case itself, which is told engrossingly by Steven Soderbergh from Susannah Grant's script. The biographical elements of the film place themselves neatly in the biopic tradition, complete with relations that start off abrasively but end (bitter)sweetly. Roberts and Eckhart don't look that persuasive as lovers, but then again, that may have been the point. And although the Roberts/Finney relation telegraphs its warmth and compassion long in advance, it does the trick. Roberts became the first actress ever to win both an Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, National Board of Review, and Screen Actors Guild Award for one and the same performance.