Erin Brockovich is an unemployed, single mum with little education or prospects only her gift for the gab and no bullshit attitude keep her above water. Having blagged her way into a law firm she stumbles across a cover up which has left a small community poisoned. The further Erin digs the more obsessed she becomes, and dragging her initially reluctant law firm in with her she prepares to do battle for one of the largest direct-action settlements in American legal history. Similar in style, and find out more...

Jodie Foster gives an Oscar winning performance as a streetwise, seemingly "loose" young woman who is viciously gang raped in a seedy bar. With her female attorney she then has to face a scornful legal system which makes it clear that she's the one on trial. Disturbing and thought provoking. find out more...