Erin Brockovich is a drama starring Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones, Peter Coyote and Erin Brockovich-Ellis in a story based on real events about an unemployed mother who after losing a lawsuit after a car accident, persuades her lawyer to give her a job and accidentally becomes instrumental in one of corporate America's biggest ever lawsuits. Erin Brockovich was directed by Steven Soderbergh in 2000 Research Erin Brockovich