see url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film) Based on
a true story...
Whatever happened to those oh so popular non-stick frying pans...modern
technology at its best, the non-stick pan...every housewifes 😉
dream...well...now you know...they might have gone, but their effects
are everlasting on human beings and our environment...yet the company
lives on in denial as all chemical manufacturers seem to do, and fight
to avoid liability however and wherever they can no matter the cost to
others...this time, they were forced to pay...not that helped those who
died or were injured for the rest of their lives from the effects of c8...
 /Dark Waters/ (2019 film)
/*Dark Waters*/ is a 2019 American legal thriller
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_thriller> film directed by Todd
Haynes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Haynes> and written by Mario
Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Michael_Carnahan>. The story
dramatizes Robert Bilott <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bilott>'s
case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont_(1802-2017)> after they
contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals. It stars Mark Ruffalo
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ruffalo> as Bilott, along with Anne
Hathaway <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway>, Tim Robbins
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Robbins>, Bill Camp
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Camp>, Victor Garber
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Garber>, Mare Winningham
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Winningham>, William Jackson Harper
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_Harper>, and Bill Pullman
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pullman>.
The film is based on the 2016 /New York Times Magazine
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Magazine>/ article
"The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" by Nathaniel Rich
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Rich_(novelist)>.^[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)#cite_note-3> ^[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)#cite_note-4> The
story was first told in the 2007 book "Stain-Resistant, Nonstick,
Waterproof and Lethal: The Hidden Dangers of C8" by Callie Lyons, a
Mid-Ohio Valley journalist who covered the controversy as it was
unfolding.^[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)#cite_note-5>
Parts of the story were also reported by Mariah Blake, whose 2015
article "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia" was a National
Magazine Award finalist,^[6]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)#cite_note-6> and
Sharon Lerner, whose series "Bad Chemistry" ran in /The Intercept
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept>/.^[7]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)#cite_note-7> ^[8]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)#cite_note-8>
Bilott also wrote a memoir, /Exposure
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure:_Poisoned_Water,_Corporate_Greed,_and_One_Lawyer%27s_Twenty-Year_Battle_Against_DuPont>/,^[9]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)#cite_note-9>
detailing his 20-year legal battle against DuPont.^[10]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)#cite_note-10>
/Dark Waters/ had a limited theatrical release on November 22, 2019, by
Focus Features <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_Features>, and went
wide on December 6, 2019. The film received positive reviews from
critics and has grossed over $23 million.
