Corporations are a driving force behind almost every part of American lifeincluding the movies we watch.
It sometimes feels like they hold all the power, and, actually, they kinda do.
And it can be extremely satisfying to watch a crusader standing up for the rest of us.
Here are 15 movies about heroes defying big corporations, most of them at least inspired by true events.
Usually, reality is at least as wild as what made it to the screen.
But I can tell you this.
Mark Ruffalo stars as lawyer Robert Bilott, who takes on the farmers' case.
The thus contained water was then sold back to the locals at vastly higher rates.
The resulting protests saw tens of thousands of people take to the streets.
A school groundskeeper in California, Johnson was exposed to hundreds of gallons of the stuff over the years.
It seems that Tessa had been investigating the deaths related to drug trials around something called Dypraxa.
The movie alternates between the harrowing investigation and the story of the development of the relationship between the two.
The Informant!
It manages to be just as thrilling, if in an entirely different way.
The drama and action are on point, as following Clayton as he is hunted by chemical industry goons.
What’s more, sexual harassment and even sexual assault are daily occurrences.
Commie nonsense, to be sure, but presented not without dramatic flair.
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