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ERIN Bockovich
ASSIGNMENT: REVIEW OF:
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ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN & ERIN BROCKOVICH
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DATE: MAY 17, 2011
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Movies Review
Erin Brockovich is a real – life story of a twice divorced mother of 3 who despite her lack of legal experience took on a $28 billion company and successfully secured the largest settlement ever paid in a direct action lawsuit in US history.
Nominated for an Acadamy Award for Best Picture, All the President’s Men is a detective story of two reporters from the popular US newspaper, Washington Post. They helped to remove President Richard Nixon from office in 1972. The movie is based on a book by the said reporters whose names are Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
All the President's Men is said to be “a genuine modern classic and one of the finest and most significant films American cinema has ever produced”.
Even though these movies are of different genres, their underlying stories bring to light certain
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Two of the burglars have the phone number of Howard Hunt, a White House aide and CIA consultant. Woodward and Bernstein start digging and with the support of interviews with other aides and cabinet members they are able to uncover contradictory stories. They persevere in getting to the bottom of the contradictory stories regardless of the risks

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