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Dark Waters
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Tom Haynes' captivating, factually based, well-acted, ire-producing, thought-provoking, jargon-heavy, star-studded (Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman, Victor Garber, Mary Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Louisa Krause), 126-minute thriller based on Robert Bilott's Exposure memoir, Mariah Blake's 2015 HuffPost Highline article Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia, Nathaniel Rich's 2016 The New York Times article The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare, and Sharon Lerner's Intercept series Bad Chemistry that follows over a 20-year period tenacious, well-seasoned, Ohio corporate defense lawyer Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), who has a supportive wife (Anne Hathaway) and three sons in Cincinnati, as he initially reluctantly agrees to sue powerhouse, deep-pockets chemical giant Dupont in 1998 when he accepts a risky, long-winded environmental case of a frustrated, angry West Virginia farmer (Bill Camp) who has buried more than 190 bovines that he suspects died of toxins that the chemical company is knowingly dumping in the water and polluting his property and perhaps responsible also for the various cancers from which the locals are suffering and dying.

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2019
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 PG-13
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