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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about PG&E, Hinkley, Erin entitled Erin Brockovich.
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conversations.value: Erin Brockovich (film): In 1993, Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) is an unemployed single mother of three children, who has recently been injured in a traffic accident with a doctor and is suing him.\nHer lawyer, Ed Masry (Albert Finney), expects to win, but Erin\'s explosive courtroom behavior under cross-examination loses her the case, and Ed will not return her phone calls afterwards.\nOne day, he arrives at work to find her in the office, apparently working.\nShe says that he told her things would work out and they did not, and that she needed a job.\nEd takes pity on Erin, and she gets a paid job at the office.\nErin is given files for a real estate case where the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is offering to purchase the home of Donna Jensen, a resident of Hinkley, California.\nErin is surprised to see medical records in the file and visits Donna, who explains that she had simply kept all her PG&E correspondence together.\nDonna appreciates PG&E\'s help: she has had several tumors and her husband has Hodgkin\'s lymphoma, but PG&E has always supplied a doctor at their own expense.\nErin asks why they would do that, and Donna replies, "because of the chromium".\nErin begins digging into the case and finds evidence that the groundwater in Hinkley is seriously contaminated with carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, but PG&E has been telling Hinkley residents that they use a safer form of chromium.\nAfter several days away from the office doing this research, she is fired by Ed until he realizes that she was working all the time, and sees what she has found out.\nRehired, she continues her research, and over time, visits many Hinkley residents and wins their trust.\nShe finds many cases of tumors and other medical problems in Hinkley.\nEveryone has been treated by PG&E\'s doctors and thinks the cluster of cases is just a coincidence, unrelated to the "safe" chromium.\nThe Jensens\' claim for compensation grows into a major class action lawsuit, but the direct evidence only relates to PG&E\'s Hinkley plant, not to the senior management.\nKnowing that PG&E could slow any settlement for years through delays and appeals, Ed takes the opportunity to arrange for disposition by binding arbitration, but a large majority of the plaintiffs must agree to this.\nErin returns to Hinkley and persuades all 634 plaintiffs to go along.\nWhile she is there, a man named Charles Embry approaches her to say that he and his cousin were PG&E employees, but his cousin recently died from the poison.\nThe man says he was tasked with destroying documents at PG&E, but, "as it turns out," he "wasn\'t a very good employee".\nEmbry gives Erin the documents, which include a 1966 memo proving corporate headquarters knew the water was contaminated with hexavalent chromium, did nothing about it, and advised the Hinkley operation to keep this secret.\nThe judge orders PG&E to pay a settlement amount of $333 million to be distributed among the plaintiffs.\nIn the aftermath, Ed hands Erin her bonus payment for the case but warns her he has changed the amount.\nShe explodes into a complaint that she deserves more respect, but is astonished to find that he has increased it—to $2 million.
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conversations.value: Provide the first scene for the screenplay.
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conversations.value: Erin Brockovich
  
  DISSOLVE TO:
  INT. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COURTROOM - DAY
  Erin is on the stand, wearing the most conservative thing she owns: a red, form-fitting mini dress, telling her story to Ed, who's questioning her.
  ERIN I was pulling out real slow, and out of nowhere, his Jaguar comes racing around the corner like a bat outta hell...
  She glances at the defendant's table, where a DOCTOR sits nobly in surgical scrubs. His WIFE and two beautiful KIDS are behind him. A frigging Norman Rockwell painting.
  LATER IN HER TESTIMONY:
  ERIN They took some bone from my hip and put it in my neck. I didn't have insurance, so I'm about seventeen thousand in debt right now.
  STILL LATER:
  ERIN... couldn't take painkillers cause they made me too groggy to take care of my kids.
  STILL LATER:
  ERIN... Matthew's six, Katie's four, and Beth's just nine months.
  STILL LATER:
  ERIN... just wanna be a good mom, a nice person, a decent citizen. Just wanna take good care of my kids. You know?
  ED (oh so moved) Yeah. I know.
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conversations.value: Provide another short scene.
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conversations.value: INT. ERIN'S HOUSE - NIGHT
  It's a hot night. George is playing on the floor with the kids. Erin is behind them on the couch, laboriously reading a book labeled, simply, CHROMIUM. The phone RINGS. Erin picks it up.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: INT. ERIN'S HOUSE - NIGHT
  It's a hot night. George is playing on the floor with the kids. Erin is behind them on the couch, laboriously reading a book labeled, simply, CHROMIUM. The phone RINGS.
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conversations.value: Provide the last long scene.
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conversations.value: ERIN Two million dollars?
  ED The firm took in sixty. That's three percent. Seemed like a fair bonus to me.
  She stares at it, speechless. Well, tough, Erin. Too goddamn bad. Cause this is absolutely, positively where I draw the line.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about unpacking.
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conversations.value: ERIN Two million dollars?
  ED The firm took in sixty. That's three percent. Seemed like a fair bonus to me. 
  She stares at it, speechless. He goes back to unpacking
  ED Oh, now I suppose you're gonna say it's not enough. Well, tough, Erin. Too goddamn bad. Cause this is absolutely, positively where I draw the line. 
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conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Provide the first long scene for the screenplay.. Start with the sentence 'Erin Brockovich
  
  DISSOLVE TO:
  INT'.
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conversations.value: Erin Brockovich
  
  DISSOLVE TO:
  INT. FIREHOUSE - LATER THAT NIGHT
  The last car drives away. The clock reads 12:35 PM. Erin and Ed are counting the agreements signed by those who wish to continue with the arbitration - talking, counting;
  ED....So how many all together..
  ERIN We got about half of them.
  ERIN We're gonna have to go door-to-door Ed. It's the only way.
  He nods. Erin looks at him.
  ERIN (CONT'D) You did good, Ed.
  ED We'll see.
  EXT. HINKLEY MOTEL - NIGHT
  Erin's Chevy pulls into the parking lot.
  MATTHEW (O.S.) I don't want to stay here. It smells.
  INT. HINKLEY MOTEL ROOM - NIGHT
  Erin is entering the crappy motel room with her kids.
  ERIN We got no choice. I'm not gonna make it home tonight. Now go wash up and climb into bed.
  As the kids wander toward the bathroom, Erin picks up the phone and dials. 
  RING, RING.
  GEORGE (O.S.) Hello?
  ERIN Hi. It's me. (silence) I've got one more favor to ask you... It'll be the last one..I promise.
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conversations.value: Provide another medium length scene.
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conversations.value: She calmly exits OS.
  EXT. LOST CAUSE SALOON - NIGHT
  Erin runs her ass off to her truck...opens the door, searches for her cell phone...
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: .
  EXT. LOST CAUSE SALOON - NIGHT
  Erin runs her ass off to her truck...opens the door, searches for her cell phone..She calmly exits OS.
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conversations.value: Provide the last scene.. Start with the sentence 'HOUSEWIFE Oh yeah, Jane, sure'.
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conversations.value: HOUSEWIFE Oh yeah, Jane, sure...
  The settlement awarded to the plaintiffs in Hinkley v. 
  PG&E was the largest in a direct-action lawsuit in United States history.
  Erin and Ed have three other cases pending, including one against PG&E.