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Was this review helpful? Maddening but important. An HBO documentary that I had the pleasure of seeing at the Provincetown film festival. Tort reform was enacted just for cases like this! In her film-making debut, Saladoff did a masterful job of unveiling the literal plot by the largest corporations in America to absolve themselves of liability by wrestling control over our justice system.
We as a people have to be aware of laws and public policy that is being influenced by big corporations through the use of/and because of money. Yet they are some cases where after seeing you just get steamed up and mad and you want to stand up and fight for the people against the companies and corporations. There is zero balance in the way the facts are presented. Information that public wasn't aware of is given in the film and the case isn't quite as simple as TV reported. Another indication of the stranglehold that American corporations have over us. It covers the infamous case of the elderly woman who spilled McDonald's coffee on her lap--and sued and won a large amount of money. We here at Abnormal Use have taken a special interest in the film since its original debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January. she eventually had a trial and it was found there was no evidence she was raped or suffered reconstructive surgery, her lawsuit was dismissed as baseless.
One of the cases presented in this one sided documentary actually makes the case for tort reform.
I wish every American could see this film to understand how their views can be manipulated by high paid corporate lobbyists. While I sympathize with people who are wronged, I despise frivolous lawsuits. Was this review helpful? Was this review helpful?
While some may call it slanted to one side, the issues have been fully explored from the opposing view in the media, so I found this perspective very interesting. Was this review helpful? 11 out of 32 found this helpful. The rest is one long appeal to emotion about how the big bad companies are horrible and lawyers are superheroes.
Then there's the woman who was brutally gang-raped due to the company lying to her and blaming HER for the crime! Film Review: Susan Saladoff’s “Hot Coffee” Documentary Tonight, at 9/8 Central on HBO, comes the long-awaited premier of Plaintiff’s attorney Susan Saladoff’s anti-tort reform documentary, Hot Coffee.
Was this review helpful? Start studying Hot Coffee Documentary Review Guide. What Halliburton did to its employee was truly outrageous.
Was this review helpful? PARK CITY – Hot Coffee is strong brew, a scalding documentary on tort reform that should stir up your blood pressure faster than a triple espresso. There really isn't any way at all at conquering big business or governmental politics. It would not seem improbable that a K Street public relations firm representing big business might soon be engaged to produce a counterpoint documentary – so compelling is Saladoff's film. This documentary had me livid at the end. The section of the movie says what will then happen in the dispute. Yes this film covers one side of the tort reform and mandatory arbitration argument.
I give it a 10. It started off on solid note by giving the full back ground on the famous McDondalds hot coffee case.
And guess who selects the arbitrators?
chapter 1 explains the (in)famous McDonalds hot coffee case.
Was this review helpful? Yes the cases presented have been chosen to ignite a certain emotional response.
Quite easily, according to Susan Saladoff's 'Hot Coffee'. I saw Hot Coffee at the San Francisco Film Festival last night (4/22/2011). Fluidly paced, including interviews with such informed luminaries as John Grisham and Al Franken, Saladoff has invigorated what many would consider dry legal subject matter and put a human face on it.