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Dark Waters

2019 · Drama · Todd Haynes · 2h 6m

A corporate defence lawyer takes a favour case for a West Virginia farmer and ends up spending twenty years suing a chemical company. Paperwork, depositions and a lot of waiting.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Clearly heavy

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