Name: A Civil Action
Genre: Drama
Released: 1998-12-25
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Bruce Norris, Mary Mara, Bryan Greenberg

Cast

Director Steven Zaillian

Writer Jonathan Harr, Steven Zaillian

Composer Danny Elfman

Cast and Crew

Film details

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, Prejudice, 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, Civil Action, A, 公民行动, 禁止的真相, 民事诉讼

Film rating

6.9

Rate 11 votes

6.6 IMDb

Stills

Quotes

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.

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