A Civil Action (1998)
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				movie info		5: excellent
				john travolta		4: very good
				robert duvall		3: average
				william h macy		2: fair
				tony shalhoub		1: poor
				martytown rating:		name (required)
				average rating at martytown: 3.00

Tense legal drama about a toxic waste dump in Massachusetts that may have caused lots of deaths and illnesses, which John Travolta is out to prove. Of course, the chemical companies play the bad guys here, but they have a folksy lawyer of their own, played convincingly by Robert Duvall, who isn't about to concede anything to the good guys.

The movie starts out nicely with Travolta as a hot shot lawyer who couldn't care less about a worthwhile case unless there's money to be made, who comes around to the plaintiffs' plight, but then the film turns into fairly standard fare: the good guys are running out of money, they can't win the legal points even though their case is just, etc., etc. Not bad, but it could have been better.
— marty