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Released
2000 · FILM

Erin Brockovich

A tenacious single mother fights corporate greed by uncovering a water contamination cover‑up in a small town, risking her career and safety to bring justice to the poisoned residents.

“She brought a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.”

Directed by
Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs
Written by
Susannah Grant
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
131 min
BiographyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A twice-divorced mother of three, Erin witnesses an injustice and confronts the bad guy—ultimately winning the day, with a little help from her push-up bra. She begins working for an attorney and discovers medical records indicating a cluster of illnesses in a nearby town. Intrigued, she starts investigating and eventually uncovers a major cover-up.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 243+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Anne V CoatesShot by Edward LachmanScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by Philip MessinaSound by Larry BlakeCostumes by Jeffrey KurlandStunts by John RobothamVFX by Carole Cowley

Box Office

2000 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$256.3M

Budget$52.0M
Worldwide gross$256.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $125.6M — 49% of worldwide · International: $130.7M (51%)

Opening weekend: $28.1M — 22% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $37.3M — 30% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,848 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Erin Brockovichde
  • Erin Brockovich - Eine wahre Geschichtede
  • Erin Brockovich, seule contre tousfr
  • Erin Brockovich - Forte come la veritàit
  • (Bulgarian)Ерин Брокович
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesMar 14, 2000
  • CanadaMar 17, 2000
  • PortugalMar 29, 2000

Companies

ProductionUniversal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Jersey Films

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