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A Civil Action
A Civil Action 18+Synopsis
The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyers.
Country
USA
Runtime
1 hour 55 minutes
Production year
1998
Online premiere
5 February 2000
World premiere
25 December 1998
Release date
| 25 December 1998 | Russia | 12+ | |
| 5 March 1999 | Austria | ||
| 14 April 1999 | France | ||
| 22 April 1999 | Germany | ||
| 9 April 1999 | Great Britain | 15 | |
| 5 March 1999 | Greece | ||
| 25 December 1998 | Kazakhstan | ||
| 9 April 1999 | Spain | ||
| 25 December 1998 | USA | ||
| 25 December 1998 | Ukraine |
MPAA
PG-13
Budget
$75,000,000
Worldwide Gross
$56,709,981
Production
Touchstone Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises
Also known as
A Civil Action, Una acción civil, Zivilprozeß, A Civil Action (Acción civil), A Qualquer Custo, A Qualquer Preço, Acción civil, Adwokat, Civil Action, Civilinis ieškinys, Dava, O katigoros, Pravda za vsako ceno, Préjudice, Siviilirohkeutta, Une action au civil, Zavaros vizeken, Ο κατήγορος, Гражданский иск, Гражданско дело, Цивільний позов, सिविल एक्शन, シビル・アクション, 法網邊緣, 法网边缘
Director
Stiven Zeyllyan
Cast
Showtimes
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Jan Schlichtmann
[narrating]
The odds of a plaintiff's lawyer winning in civil court are two to one against. Think about that for a second. Your odds of surviving a game of Russian roulette are better than winning a case at trial. 12 times better. So why does anyone do it? They don't. They settle. Out of the 780,000, only 12,000 or 11/2 percent ever reach a verdict. The whole idea of lawsuits is to settle, to compel the other side to settle. And you do that by spending more money than you should, which forces them to spend more money than they should, and whoever comes to their senses first loses. Trials are a corruption of the entire process and only fools who have something to prove end up ensnared in them. Now when I say prove, I don't mean about the case, I mean about themselves.
