Erin Brockovich (2000)

Director Steven Soderbergh, working from a script by Susannah Grant, gives us the true story of a modern warrior. And in casting Julia Roberts as the real life Brockovich, he focused the story and her Oscar-winning performance on what one person can do against environmental capitalism. Roberts’s gutsy, expletive-laden performance surges through a story about a jobless woman finagling her way into becoming a legal assistant and then onto one of the largest class-action environmental lawsuits ever laid in American jurisprudence. And she won. It is thrilling to watch and experience an environmental success story well made and well played.