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A civil action Cover Image DVD DVD

A civil action

Summary: A high-priced personal injury attorney represents eight families whose children died of leukemia after large corporations let toxic waste leak into the water supply in the Boston area. He puts his career, reputation and all that he owns on the line for the rights of his clients.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0788816020
  • Physical Description: videorecording
    videodisc
    1 DVD-video (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Widescreen ed.
  • Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Video : Dist. by Buena Vista Home Video, [1999]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Based on the book of the same title by Jonathan Harr.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
DVD special features include: production featurette, theatrical trailer, chapter search.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Producer, Scott Rudin, Robert Redford, Rachel Pfeffer; screenplay, Steven Zaillian; director, Steven Zaillian.
Participant or Performer Note: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Stephen Fry, James Gandolfini, Dan Hedaya, Zeljko Ivanek, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, Kathleen Quinlan, Tony Shalhoub.
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: PG-13.
System Details Note:
DVD; Dolby digital stereo.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Licensed for educational use at VCC and for personal home use.
Language Note:
Closed-captioned; English and French language tracks.
Subject: Anderson, Anne -- 1936?- -- Trials, litigation, etc -- Drama
Schlichtmann, Jan -- Drama
W.R. Grace & Co. -- Trials, litigation, etc -- Drama
Feature films
Trials (Toxic torts) -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Drama
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts -- Woburn -- Drama
Drinking water -- Contamination -- Massachusetts -- Woburn -- Drama
Liability for water pollution damages -- Massachusetts -- Woburn -- Drama
Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sitka.

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  • 0 current holds with 0 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Downtown Library KF 228 A7 H372 1999a (Text) 33109010234516 DVDs & Videos Volume hold Available -

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