Soderbergh finally hit a box-office home run in 2000 with ERIN BROCKOVICH, a Julia Roberts-starring biopic about a paralegal with a big personality and a nose for corporate environmental malfeasance, and the one-two punch of BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC in a single year cemented him as a truly major filmmaker. This is one of the big ones, so we brought in our friend Carlee from Hit Factory to talk about basically everything: capitalism, the climate, gender, fashion, interpassivity, Todd Haynes, and Sheryl Crow. Great ep! Don't use ChatGPT even as a joke!

Further Reading:

Superman's Not Coming by Erin Brockovich

"Digging For The Truth" by Robert B. Welkos

"Ordinary Heroes vs. Failed Lawyers: Public Interest Litigation in 'Erin Brockovich' and Other Contemporary Films" by Michael McCann and William Haltom

"Erin Brockovich, 20 Years Later: 'I See So Many of Us Finding That Courage to Stand Up'" by Susan King

Further Viewing:

A CIVIL ACTION (Zaillian, 1998)

LEGALLY BLONDE (Luketic, 2001)

FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, 2017)

DARK WATERS (Haynes, 2019)

EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, 2023)

 

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