The movie "A Civil Action," was a very interesting movie to me. It really helped show me some of the flaws in our legal system and the true nature of it. If theres anything I picked up from it, it is the fact that achieving justice is not the goal for most court cases. Like what Facher said in the movie, Truth lies at the bottom of a bottomless pit I thought we were talking about a court of law. Court isn't that place to find the truth. You'll be lucky if you find anything around here resembling the truth. This case stopped being about dead children as soon as it entered the justice system. Facher is not a bad guy, I think he is a pragmatist. He understands how the law works and he is masterful at manipulating it in order to further his clients interests. The way he prevented the families from testifying in court, in my opinion is not him beating the system but rather just the way the system works. Lawyers have to look at all angles and possibilities to earn their paycheck from their client. He did so perfectly and is a brilliant lawyer though some people might call into question his ethics but that is a very grey area. Travolta's character at first seemed the same as Fachner, but I think he acted ethically in helping the families fight for justice but to his dismay he learned the hard way that our system has the nice guys finishing last. He could have reached a settlement in the case but he tried to abide by the wishes of his clients in that they were not interested in money but rather an apology from someone claiming responsibility. In that sense I think that his clients did not have a grasp on the way our legal system operates, and should have understood that the companies that polluted the river were interested in self preservation and do not give much mind to those people that they harmed. A side effect of this was the enormous cost of the trial was, especially to the law firm. The perception that people file lawsuits just to mak