Erin Brockovich

Julia Roberts stars as the eponymous character in this legal drama directed by Steven Soderbergh. Erin Brockovich is a brassy, unemployed, twice-divorced single mother. When she is injured in a motor accident and her lawyer Ed Masry (Albert Finney) fails to win her any compensation, her solution is to insist that Ed employs her at his firm. Erin's new colleagues do not take her seriously at first but when she discovers a cover-up by a water company who have been poisoning the local community, she and Ed set out to win the victims a multi-million dollar settlement. The cast also includes Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger and Cherry Jones.