R | 2h 11min | Biography, Drama | 17 March 2000 (USA) “Spotlight” and “Erin Brockovich” are both true stories, respectively, of 1) journalists investigating rampant pedophile priest corruption in the Catholic Church, and 2) a twice-divorced former Miss Wichita (a mother of three with a photographic memory) investigating rampant corruption at a power plant. Much like 2010’s “Gasland” (environmental poisoning by fracking) and 2019’s “Dark Waters” (environmental poisoning by DuPont’s Teflon), “Erin Brockovich” is about Pacific Gas and Electric’s groundwater poisoning via the chemical compound hexavalent chromium. As in the other films, cancer abounds. America now appears to be in a state of complacent, pessimistic fatalism regarding the lies generated by corporate greed that physically poison our environment. We should all be whistleblowers in this day and age. Hidden (and Not So Hidden) Talents In the early 1990s, Erin Brockovich goes job hunting. With two ex-husbands and three mouths …