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  1. Nov 21, 2019 · Opening the story with a spooky prologue right out of the horror handbook, the director Todd Haynes makes it clear that here be monsters: It’s 1975 and a gaggle of young trespassers venture onto ...

    • Todd Haynes
  2. Nov 22, 2019 · November 22, 2019. 6 min read. “Dark Waters,” starring Mark Ruffalo as an attorney trying to punish the DuPont chemical corporation for dumping toxic waste in West Virginia, is a lone-crusader-against-the-corrupt-system film, in the tradition of “ The Insider,” “ A Civil Action,” and “ The Verdict.”. Director Todd Haynes ...

  3. Nov 13, 2019 · The film, written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan, is based on the 2016 New York Times Magazine story “The Lawyer Who Became Dupont’s Worst Nightmare,” and the person it’s ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Feb 19, 2020 · The hard work is the point. The realism can feel hard going. This is a less sexy film than, say, Erin Brockovich, even though they share plot similarities. But realism allows the film’s power to ...

    • Francesca Steele
  6. Nov 30, 2019 · The 'Dark Waters' true story behind characters played by Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway and other stars in the environmental legal thriller directed by Todd Haynes. By Christy Piña. Peter Gallagher ...

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  8. Pegged as a departure for Haynes by US critics who’ve either missed or ignored the activist streak in his work dating back to 1991’s Poison, Dark Waters is adapted from a 2016 New York Times Magazine article entitled The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare. Said lawyer, Robert Bilott, is, by his own real-world admission, an unlikely Quixote, having made his bones as a corporate ...

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