FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
A Civil Action
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer62%as of 2021-10-05
- Rotten Tomatoes average6.4/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic68/100as of 2024-02-04
What it is
A Civil Action is a 1998 American legal drama film directed and written by Steven Zaillian and starring John Travolta with Robert Duvall, James Gandolfini, Dan Hedaya, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, Kathleen Quinlan, and Tony Shalhoub. Based on the 1995 book by Jonathan Harr, the film depicts the true story of a court case about environmental pollution that took place in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s.
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- English
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