Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother desperate to find a job but is having no luck--even extending to a failed lawsuit against a doctor from a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation. While no one takes her seriously with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. She discovers that the company is quietly buying land contaminated by a deadly toxic waste that the company is illegally dumping, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a case that involves her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history.