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Countries - USA
year - 2019
Todd Haynes
genres - Biography, History
Creators - Nathaniel Rich
runtime - 126 minute.
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Dark Waters Theatrical release poster Directed by Todd Haynes Produced by
Mark Ruffalo
Christine Vachon
Pamela Koffler
Screenplay by
Mario Correa
Matthew Michael Carnahan
Based on "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" by Nathaniel Rich Starring
Anne Hathaway
Tim Robbins
Bill Camp
Victor Garber
Mare Winningham
Bill Pullman
Music by Marcelo Zarvos Cinematography Edward Lachman Edited by Affonso Gonçalves Production companies
Participant
Killer Films
Distributed by Focus Features Release date
November 22, 2019 (United States)
Running time 126 minutes [1] Country United States Language English Budget $20 million Box office $21 million [2]
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, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman.
The film is based on the 2016 New York Times Magazine article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" by Nathaniel Rich. [3] [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 theatrically released in a limited capacity on November 22, 2019, by Focus Features, and went wide on December 6, 2019. The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $21 million.
Plot [ edit]
Robert Bilott is a corporate defense lawyer from Cincinnati, Ohio working for law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister. Farmer Wilbur Tennant, who knows Robert's grandmother, asks Robert to investigate a number of unexplained deaths in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Tennant connects the deaths to the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont, and gives Robert a large case of videotapes.
Robert visits the Tennants' farm, where he learns that 190 cattle have died with unusual medical conditions such as bloated organs, blackened teeth, and tumors. DuPont attorney Phil Donnelly tells him he is not aware of the case but will help out in any way he can. Robert files a small suit so he can gain information through legal discovery of the chemicals dumped on the site. When he finds nothing useful in the EPA report, he realizes the chemicals might not be regulated by the EPA.
Robert confronts Phil at an industry event, leading to an angry exchange. DuPont sends Robert hundreds of boxes, hoping to bury the evidence. Robert finds numerous references to PFOA, a chemical with no references in any medical textbook. In the middle of the night, Robert's pregnant wife Sarah finds him tearing the carpet off the floors and going through their pans. He has discovered that PFOA is perfluorooctanoic acid, used to manufacture Teflon and used in American homes for nonstick pans. DuPont has been running tests of the effect of PFOA for decades, finding that it causes cancer and birth defects, but did not make the findings public. They dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic sludge upriver from Tennant's farm. PFOA and similar compounds are forever chemicals, chemicals that do not leave the blood stream and slowly accumulate.
Tennant has been shunned by the community for suing their biggest employer, and he and his wife both have cancer. Robert encourages him to accept DuPont's settlement, but Tennant refuses, wanting justice. He tells Robert he and his wife both have cancer. Robert sends the DuPont evidence to the EPA and Department of Justice, among others. The EPA fines DuPont $16. 5 million.
Robert, however, is not satisfied; he realizes that the residents of Parkersburg will suffer the effects of the PFOA for the rest of their lives. He seeks medical monitoring for all residents of Parkersburg in one large class-action lawsuit. However, DuPont sends a letter notifying residents of the presence of PFOA, thus starting the statute of limitations and giving any further action only a month to begin.
Since PFOA is not regulated, Robert's team argues that the corporation is liable, as the amount in the water was higher than the one part per billion deemed safe by DuPont's internal documents. In court, DuPont claims their later study found that 150 parts per billion is safe. The locals protest and the story becomes national news. DuPont agrees to settle for $70 million. As DuPont is only required to carry out medical monitoring if scientists prove that PFOA causes the ailments, an independent scientific review is set up. To get data for it, DuPont tells the locals they can get their settlement money after donating blood. Nearly 70, 000 people donate to the study.
Seven years pass with no result from the study. Tennant dies and Robert becomes destitute following several pay cuts, straining his marriage. When Tom tells him he needs to take another pay cut, Robert collapses, shaking. Doctors tell Sarah he suffered an ischemia, brought on by stress. Sarah tells Tom to stop making Robert feel like a failure, since he is doing something for people who need help.
The scientific review contacts Robert and tells him that PFOA causes multiple cancers and other diseases. At dinner with his family, Robert is informed that DuPont is reneging on the entire agreement. Robert decides to take each defendant's case to DuPont, one at a time. He wins the first three multimillion-dollar settlements against DuPont, and DuPont settles the class action for $671 million.
Cast [ edit]
Production [ edit]
On September 21, 2018, it was announced that Todd Haynes would direct the film, then titled Dry Run, from a script by Matthew Michael Carnahan, which would be produced by Participant Media along with Mark Ruffalo. [10] In November 2018, Ruffalo was officially set to star in the film. [11]
In January 2019, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, and Bill Pullman joined the cast of the film, with Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler producing under their Killer Films banner. [12] Principal photography began on January 14, 2019, in Cincinnati, Ohio. [12] [13]
Release [ edit]
The film was released in limited theatres on November 22, 2019, before going wide on December 6, 2019. [14]
Reception [ edit]
Box office [ edit]
Dark Waters grossed $11. 1 million in the United States and Canada, and $9. 9 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $21 million. [2]
In its opening weekend the film made $102, 656 from four theaters, a per-venue average of $25, 651. [14] It expanded to 94 theaters the following weekend, making $630, 000. [15] The film went wide in its third weekend of release, making $4. 1 million from 2, 012 theaters, and then made $1. 9 million in its fourth weekend. [16] [17]
Critical response [ edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 90% based on 197 reviews, with an average rating of 7. 3/10. The website's critics consensus reads: " Dark Waters powerfully relays a real-life tale of infuriating malfeasance, honoring the victims and laying blame squarely at the feet of the perpetrators. " [18] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [19] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an average 3. 5 out of 5 stars, with 60% saying they would definitely recommend it to a friend. [16]
Economic response [ edit]
The DowDuPont breakup earlier in the year spun off a new DuPont company that continued to lose value throughout the second half of 2019 as investors grew concerned about the potential liabilities related to the old DuPont's fluoropolymer products. When Dark Waters was released on November 12, DuPont's stock price dropped even further by 7. 15 points from 72. 18 to 65. 03. While the portfolio is now a part of Chemours and the companies settled the public health lawsuits referenced in the film, Chemours sued DuPont, alleging that the former parent company saddled it with onerous liabilities when it failed to prepare financial projections in good faith. Chemours estimated that it would need to pay over $200 million to address environmental damages in North Carolina caused by another PFAS manufacturing facility in that region. (The prior settlement in both West Virginia and Ohio cost $671 million, which was split between the two companies. ) [20]
DuPont CEO Marc Doyle, executives, and investors argued in internal statements that much of the movie was not based in fact and DuPont was misconstrued to fit the role of the enemy. According to Doyle, limited public statements were made because “in a situation like this, it just doesn’t do you much good to fight it out in the public eye. That would just drive more and more attention to it. ” Executive chairman Ed Breen wouldn’t comment on whether DuPont would take legal action in response to the movie, but he did tell investors, “Obviously, we have a lot of legal folks [that] have been looking at this. " [21] Many of the executives with whom this movie draws fault still work, or recently worked at DuPont. 3M saw little to no change in its stock price the day of the film's release, but it was already experiencing a "difficult year" from "potential liabilities due to possible litigation over previous production of PFAS. " [22] 3M's stock price closed at 256. 01 on January 28, 2018, and by December 1, 2019, it had fallen to 168. 27. [23]
Accolades [ edit]
See also [ edit]
Perfluorinated alkylated substances (PFAS)
Timeline of events related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
The Devil We Know (2018 investigative documentary)
References [ edit]
^ "Dark Waters". AMC Theatres. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
^ a b "Dark Waters (2019)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
^ Rich, Nathaniel (January 6, 2016). "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare". The New York Times Magazine. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
^ Wiseman, Andreas (January 9, 2019). "Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, More Join Mark Ruffalo In Todd Haynes-Participant Drama About DuPont Pollution Scandal". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
^ Steigrad, Alexandra (January 14, 2016). "American Society of Magazine Editors Unveils Finalists for 2016 National Magazine Awards". WWD. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
^ Lerner, Sharon (October 24, 2019). "Bad Chemistry". The Intercept. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
^ Lerner, Sharon (August 11, 2015). "The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception". Retrieved November 18, 2019.
^ Bilott, Robert (2019). Exposure: poisoned water, corporate greed, and one lawyer's twenty-year battle against DuPont. New York: Atria Books – via The Internet Archive.
^ "Lawyer who took on DuPont has book coming out". Associated Press. July 10, 2019. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
^ N'Duka, Amanda (September 21, 2018). " ' Carol' Helmer Todd Haynes To Direct 'Dry Run' Drama For Participant Media". Retrieved September 22, 2018.
^ Wiseman, Andreas (November 9, 2018). "Mark Ruffalo To Star In Participant Media's Todd Haynes Pic About DuPont Pollution Scandal". Retrieved November 15, 2019.
^ a b Wiseman, Andreas (January 9, 2019). Retrieved January 9, 2019.
^ "Shooting for film starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway begins in Hamilton Monday".. January 11, 2019. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
^ a b Brueggemann, Tom (November 27, 2019). " ' Dark Waters' Leads Tepid Arthouse Openers at Crowded Box Office". Indiewire.
^ Brueggemann, Tom (December 1, 2019). " ' Harriet, ' 'Jojo Rabbit, ' and 'Parasite' Reap Holiday Box Office Bounty". IndieWire. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
^ a b D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 8, 2019). " ' Frozen 2' Leads Dreary December Weekend With $34M+, 'Playmobil' Plunges To $670K – Sunday Update". Retrieved December 8, 2019.
^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 15, 2019). " ' Jumanji: The Next Level' Advancing To $51M+ Opening; 'Richard Jewell' & 'Black Christmas' Earn Lumps Of Coal". Retrieved December 20, 2019.
^ "Dark Waters (2019)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
^ "Dark Waters Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
^ "Here's Why DuPont Fell 40. 5% in 2019".. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
^ "DuPont execs react to villain role in 'Dark Waters' film".. November 1, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
^ "Is 3M Stock a Buy for 2020? The industrial giant had a very difficult 2019, but is it set for a turnaround in the coming year? ".. December 18, 2019. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
^ "News & Analysis: 3M".. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
^ "24th Satellite Awards nominations".. International Press Academy. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
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Movie Dark watershed. Movie Dark water damage. From Participant (Spotlight, Green Book), DARK WATERS tells the shocking and heroic story of an attorney ( Mark Ruffalo) who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemicals. Corporate environmental defense attorney Rob Bilott (Academy Award®-nominee Mark Ruffalo) has just made partner at his prestigious Cincinnati law firm in large part due to his work defending Big Chem companies. He finds himself conflicted after he’s contacted by two West Virginia farmers who believe that the local DuPont plant is dumping toxic waste in the area landfill that is destroying their fields and killing their cattle. Hoping to learn the truth about just what is happening, Bilott, with help from his supervising partner in the firm, Tom Terp (Academy Award®-winner Tim Robbins), files a complaint that marks the beginning of an epic 15-year fight—one that will not only test his relationship with his wife, Sarah (Academy Award®-winner Anne Hathaway) but also his reputation, his health and his livelihood.
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Really liked this movie. Compelling storytelling and visuals, as well as good acting across all the main characters.
Pulled me into the story, and also surprised me with the actual ending/credits.
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