Julia Roberts stars as the eponymous character in this legal drama directed by Steven Soderbergh. Erin Brockovich is a brassy, unemployed, twice-divorced single mother. When she is injured in a motor accident and her lawyer Ed Masry (Albert Finney) fails to win her any compensation, her solution is to insist that Ed employs her at his firm. Erin´s new colleagues do not take her seriously at first but when she discovers a cover-up by a water company who have been poisoning the local community, she and Ed set out to win the victims a multi-million dollar settlement. The cast also includes Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger and Cherry Jones.