Sat 4/13 @ 7PM
The 2019 film Dark Waters, staring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway and Tim Robbins and directed by Todd Haynes, is based on a New York Times Magazine article, magazine articles having been a fruitful source for movie ideas since at least Saturday Night Fever in 1977. (Almost Famous, The Fast and the Furious, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas also started as magazine articles.)
The article was titled “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare,” and the film is described as a “legal thriller,” in which a Cincinnati lawyer is tapped in investigate the deaths of cows on a farm in West Virginia. He learns that DuPont has been dumping toxic sludge above the farm. But with DuPont stonewalling, dragging its feet and reneging on its agreement, the lawyer’s career, family and health are in jeopardy.
The film will screen at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church hosted by the West Shore Social Action Committee.Tish O’Dell, from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and the Ohio Community Rights Network, will offer comments on the film and answer questions. It’s free and open to all. Get more information here.
Rocky River, OH 44116