"Erin Borokovich" is a story about a single mom and uneducated legal assistant who uncovers a major cover-up of a pollution scandal in southern California. It stars Julia Roberts as the title character, Albert Finney as her boss and Aaron Eckhart as her love-interest. The movie is all about the title character and it relies on her for both plot and comical relief all the way through. If it hadn't been for Roberts performance as Erin the movie wouldn't have won the audiences hearts and minds. And that is a bad thing. There are few if any scenes without Roberts in them and those are either pointless or street shots of buildings. The other characters are one dimensional and uninteresting and only in the film to be ridiculed by Erin and to never be seen again. The film was nominated to four Academy Awards in 2001, but Roberts was the only one the film one. Steven Soderbergh lost the best director award to himself for his other film the superior movie "Traffic".
