![]() ![]() That Zaillian remains faithful to the historical facts of the case is admirable. That only happens in the movies, though, and this, so to speak, is real life. It's not so much a false clue thrown in to mislead the crusading protagonist, based on real-life personal injury lawyer Jan Schlichtmann, but one that misleads the audience into thinking that we will finally get the deus ex machina we have been waiting for, some eleventh-hour witness whose testimony finally puts the bad guys whoever they might be in jail. In dramatic terms, it's a red herring, an explosion used by filmmaker Steve Zaillian more for cinematic effect than exposition. Yet that startling shot comes very late in the game, and the lake is really not much more than a small pond. Grace and Beatrice Foods of contaminating the waters of Woburn, Mass., does have a pretty cool scene of a lake on fire its dark, poisoned surface bursting into flame when a firecracker is accidentally tossed in. Mind you, this fact-based drama about the 1982 lawsuit accusing corporate giants W.R. The only "Action" you will encounter in "A Civil Action" is in the title. ![]() John Travolta (left) stars as a lawyer in "Civil Action." ![]()
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