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Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but
is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against
a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully
browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While
no
one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that
soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case
involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the
company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent
chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally
dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs
deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would
involve her lawfirm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American
history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.