{"id":1237484,"date":"2025-03-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237484"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:00:00","slug":"15-of-the-best-movies-about-sticking-it-to-massive-corporations-including-erin-brockovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237484","title":{"rendered":"15 of the Best Movies About Sticking It to Massive Corporations (Including ‘Erin Brockovich’)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Corporations are a driving force behind almost every part of American life\u2014including the movies we watch. It sometimes feels like they hold all the power, and, actually, they kinda do. But if the power of capitalism can\u2019t be overcome, it can at least be checked once in a while. And it can be extremely satisfying to watch a crusader standing up for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Here are 15 movies about heroes defying big corporations, most of them at least inspired by true events. Usually, reality is at least as wild as what made it to the screen. As The Constant Gardener <\/em>author John le Carr\u00e9 observed in the afterward to (and the end credits of the film adaptation of) his almost<\/em> entirely fictional novel:<\/p>\n

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Nobody in this story, and no outfit or corporation, thank God, is based upon an actual person or outfit in the real world. But I can tell you this. As my journey through the pharmaceutical jungle progressed, I came to realize that, by comparison with the reality, my story was as tame as a holiday postcard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Erin Brokovich<\/em> (2000)<\/h2>\n
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Real life provides plenty of examples of individuals standing up to corporations\u2014with varying degrees of success. This is one of the more inspiring ones: Steven Soderbergh’s crowd-pleasing legal drama was a box office triumph and an Oscar season contender, and it made a star of its titular real life activist. Julia Roberts plays Brokovich, who in 1993 was an unemployed single mother who couldn’t keep out of her own way. Given a pity job as a paralegal by the man who served as her lawyer in an injury case, she stumbles onto some troubling medical documents while researching a real estate case. It soon becomes clear that Pacific Gas and Electric Company is hiding something in Hinkley, California\u2014specifically, they’ve been dumping chromium-contaminated waste into several ponds around the town, and cancer incidents are way up in the region. It’s here that Erin’s dogged determination (and utter refusal to keep her mouth shut ,even when she’d be better off to do so) come in tremendously handy for the people of Hinkley, who now have an unlikely champion. You can stream Erin Brokovich<\/em> on Netflix<\/a><\/strong> or rent it from Prime Video<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

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