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A Civil Action is a drama film which was directed by Steven Zaillian, that stars John Travolta and Robert Duvall, and that is based on the book by Jonathan Harr.The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove...
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Los Angeles Times
As proficient a job as writer-director Steve Zaillian and his team do, A Civil Action has unmistakably unraveled by its close.
February 14, 2001
Draxblog Movie Reviews
the film is slightly overlong and the ending is anti-cathartic.
February 28, 2005
TV Guide
This is a case in which the material really is better served in book form.
November 22, 2009
Time Out
Delivering the verdict two thirds into the movie is anti-climactic, while Schlichtmann's belated atonement feels beside the point.
February 09, 2006
Reeling Reviews
I expected a harder hitting indictment against the uncaring power of corporate America. Instead, we get a middlin' courtroom drama that lacks the intensity of such films as the 1982 Sidney Lumet/Paul Newman film, The Verdict.
April 09, 2005
Village Voice
A slick, shameless job that takes way too long to make its point (namely, we need the EPA).
January 01, 2000
CNN.com
Schlichtmann may have gone through this conversion in real life, but I just didn't buy it the way Zaillian presents it.
January 01, 2000
New York Magazine/Vulture
I'm all for films that don't flow from the usual Hollywood test tubes, but A Civil Action is basically the standard formula with a dash of downbeat.
January 01, 2000
eFilmCritic.com
The movie becomes one more David-and-Goliath morality play.
July 30, 2007
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