{"id":8082,"date":"2019-11-28T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T16:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2019-11-28T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T16:26:29","slug":"review-dark-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8082","title":{"rendered":"Review: DARK WATERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Mark Ruffalo leads emotional, but ponderous, legal drama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-656x1024.png 656w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-768x1198.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-400x624.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-433x675.png 433w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10-692x1080.png 692w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-6-10.png 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/darkwaters1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/darkwaters1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/darkwaters1-400x593.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/darkwaters1-456x675.jpg 456w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/darkwaters1.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Director Todd Haynes&#8217; earnest, engaging courtroom drama is an exercise in legal tedium. It&#8217;s a solid effort, but because the film is so meticulously grounded, viewer attention may wander. <br><br>&#8220;Dark Waters&#8221; is based in part on a 2016 New York Times Magazine article entitled &#8220;The Lawyer Who Became DuPont&#8217;s Worst Nightmare.&#8221; The story is told exclusively from the perspective of lawyer Rob Bilott (played by Mark Ruffalo). A gifted Cincinnati attorney, Bilott led the charge against DuPont in a complex litigation involving water contamination in Parkersburg, West Virginia. In real life, his efforts in court against DuPont continue.<br><br>In the movie, Bilott is inspired to take up the cause when he&#8217;s visited at his big-city law firm by angry and disagreeable farmer Wilbur Tennant (Bill Camp). Tennant has lost nearly all his livestock to a mysterious disease, documenting the progression on video. Initially, Bilott thinks he can appease the farmer by contacting DuPont, a potential firm client, and gathering comforting information from an EPA study. However, as he digs into the matter, Bilott discovers that DuPont is hiding something.<br><br>Read the full review online and in print in the Times-Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2019\/11\/dark-waters-mark-ruffalo-leads-emotional-but-ponderous-legal-drama\">https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2019\/11\/dark-waters-mark-ruffalo-leads-emotional-but-ponderous-legal-drama<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Haynes and Mark Ruffalo team up for detailed legal drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8086,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}