Erin Brockovich

The 2000 film Erin Brockovich, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by  Susannah Grant is a dramatization of the true story of Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts, who fought against the energy corporation Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) regarding its culpability for the Hinkley groundwater contamination incident. In the end, Erin's special ability to bond with the victims of chromium contaminaton and their families and Ed's legal and administrative prowess are the key ingredients to making the case against PG&E. As a team, they manage to successfully lay the groundwork for the payment of legal damages by PG&E to those harmed, the movie Erin Brockovich highlights the thorny issue environmental pollution and it paints a true picture of how corporations are annihilating life slowly due to greed to make extra money and create more riches..

The movie also explored the dynamic between clothing and perception. Julia Roberts in “Erin Brockovich”; She said, "I was taught never to judge a book by its cover. My clothing was nothing more than a cover and I have never thought that anyone was smart or stupid or anything else by the way they chose to dress."She spends the whole film parading around in tiny tops with padded bras, precariously high heels, and miniscule leather skirts. Erin Brockovich, who had the same exact fashion sense. (The film tells how this statuesque single mother got a job as a legal assistant, then spearheaded a lawsuit against California PG&E power company that settled for $333 million in 1996 — the largest direct-action settlement ever.) ”When Erin saw the movie,” says director Steven Soderbergh, ”she said, ‘The only thing that was inaccurate is that the skirts weren’t short enough.”’ Soderbergh and the producers wanted to stay true to every one of Brockovich’s hemlines, because her outrageous style defined who she was — a woman who disarmed people with her flashiness, then won them over with her brains.” In 1981 Brockovich won the Miss Pacific Coast beauty pageant, but chose not to pursue any other pageant titles after her win. Brockovich married her first husband, Shawn Brown, in 1982 and they had two children. Say the name Erin Brockovich and you think, strong, tough, stubborn and sexy. Erin is all that and definitely more. She is a modern-day “David” who loves a good brawl with today's “Goliaths.” She thrives on being the voice for those who don't know how to yell. She is a rebel.

To succeed against overwhelming odds is the moral of the move – dead-end jobs, dead-end relationships, dyslexia, you name it – she had to find and free the power and force of her own inner strength, the inner strength that is there in everyone.