Dark Waters (2019 film)
2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan. The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals. It stars Mark Ruffalo as Bilott, along with Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman.
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Directed by | Todd Haynes |
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Based on | "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" by Nathaniel Rich |
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Cinematography | Edward Lachman |
Edited by | Affonso Gonçalves |
Music by | Marcelo Zarvos |
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Distributed by | Focus Features |
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Running time | 126 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $23.1 million[1] |
The film is based on the 2016 New York Times Magazine article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" by Nathaniel Rich.[2][3] The story was first told in the 2007 book Stain-Resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof and Lethal: The Hidden Dangers of C8 by Callie Lyons, a Mid-Ohio Valley journalist who covered the controversy as it was unfolding.[4] Parts of the story were also reported by Mariah Blake, whose 2015 article "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia" was a National Magazine Award finalist,[5] and Sharon Lerner, whose series "Bad Chemistry" ran in The Intercept.[6][7] Bilott also wrote a memoir, Exposure,[8] detailing his 20-year legal battle against DuPont.[9]
Dark Waters was released in limited theatrical form by Focus Features on November 22, 2019, and went wide on December 6, 2019. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $23 million.