A Civil Action

Corporate indifference meets a tenacious conscience. Jan Schlictmann, a personal-injury attorney, takes on a toxic-water case that could bankrupt his firm and remake a town's memory of it's dead children. What begins as strategy turns into a reckoning about responsibility. John Travolta leads a superb cast including Robert Duvall and William H. Macy. 115 mins. Region Free. (Original release: 1998).