Civil Action, A

Based on the book by Jonathan Harr from a true story, A Civil Action stars John Travolta as a cynical personal injury attorney who only takes cases that he thinks he can settle out of court—and receive a large percentage for himself. But the case he’s just accepted turns out to be the one that turns his cynicism into determination as he risks his career and everything he owns in a lengthy battle to fight for the civil rights of his clients who, it appears, have been slowly poisioned by drinking water from two wells that were contaminated with chemical solvents by two large manufacturing plants.