Erin Brockovich Summary

Summary of Erin Brockovich

This movie is based on true events. It is a about a lady Erin Brockovich who is unemployed and looking for a job but does not have any qualifications. She is a single mother with three children. After one job interview she is in a car accident and the law firm she goes to loses the case, but a few days later she goes back to the law firm and demands a job because they lost her case and she needs money to support her family. Once she got the job she started doing some paper work and came across some medical records that interested her so she started doing some investigating. She found that PG&E have bought land which contains chromium she did further investigations she started to go to families in the area and she started to find out that these families were getting sickness relating to chromium 6 which is pollution that is like poison and if people come into contact with it they can get sickness from nose bleeds to any types of cancer. These families all had one of these sicknesses this was all because of PG&E improperly dumping chromium 6 and it was getting into underground water which the people in the area were using for everyday life causing them to get sick. Erin started getting signatures from

One of the first times you see this is in the first scene in the movie where Erin is being interviewed the way she dresses is not appropriate by wearing short skirts and showing as much cleavage, this is not only in the first scene though it is throughout the whole movie. The next point is the way Erin acts if she does not like how things go she is not professional at all she will get upset and swear and try to intimidate whoever is in her way which is unethical and not professional at all. Another incident where she isn’t professional is when she just doesn’t show up for work for a week does not tell anyone and still expects to have a job which is not right at