A Civil Action

     

A Civil Action1998

Stars: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 115 minutes

A Civil Action is a non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr about a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. The case is Anderson v. Cryo… more »


Jan Schlichtmann:
This figure here, one hundred dollars an hour for Dr. Conan that seems more than fair considering his preeminence

James Gordon:
That's for his nights in the hotel, that's his discount sleeping rate

Jan Schlichtmann:
oh

James Gordon:
Your doctors have cost us more than nine hundred thousand so far

Jan Schlichtmann:
They're worth it

James Gordon:
Your geologists have cost us more than five hundred thousand so far

Jan Schlichtmann:
Well, they're worth it

James Gordon:
That's not the point, the point is everybody in the firm is only working on this case which means we have no money coming in, just going out

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