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| | Beyond A Civil Action, The Movie (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Disney's Touchstone Pictures has brought to the screen Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action, dramatizing a complex environmental trial in 1986 in Woburn, Massachusetts that pits John Travolta as plaintiffs' attorney, Jan Schlichtmann, in a nose-to-nose struggle with Robert Duvall as Beatrice attorney Jerome Facher. |
 | | Beatrice attorney Jerome P. Facher, who is portrayed in the movie by Robert Duvall, expects the worst. |
 | | In a conversation with reporter Dan Kennedy of the Boston Phoenix, Jonathan Harr recalls Facher calling the movie version of the Woburn trial "the fourth degree of separation," understanding that with each level of removal, the resemblance between what is seen on the screen and what may have actually happened grows dimmer and dimmer. |
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