Dark Waters (2019) on Netflix
Wilbur Tennant, a West Virginia farmer, asks Robert Bilott, a corporate lawyer in Cincinnati, to look into the deaths of his dairy cattle. Tennant blames DuPont.
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In 1998, Robert Bilott works as a corporate defense lawyer at a Cincinnati firm. Wilbur Tennant, a farmer and a friend of Bilott's grandmother, asks him to look into the deaths of his dairy cattle in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Tennant links the losses to DuPont, the chemical manufacturer, and hands over a large case of videotapes. At the farm, Bilott learns that 190 cows have died after showing bloated organs, blackened teeth and tumors. Phil Donnelly, an attorney for DuPont, tells Bilott that he knows nothing of Tennant's complaints and offers to assist. To obtain information about chemicals dumped at a landfill near the farm, Bilott files a small suit and seeks discovery, but the EPA report he receives has nothing of use.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dark Waters (2019)
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- DuPont CEO Marc Doyle argued in internal statements that much of Dark Waters was not based on fact and the company was misconstrued as the enemy, while executive chairman Ed Breen told investors legal staff had been looking at the film but would not say whether DuPont would sue.
- DuPont's stock price fell 7.15 points, from 72.18 to 65.03, when Dark Waters was released, extending a slide that began after the DowDuPont breakup as investors worried about liabilities from the old DuPont's fluoropolymer products.
- William "Bucky" Bailey, whose mother worked on the Teflon line at a DuPont facility and who has the PFOA-induced "one nostril and eye defect" the film says was found in DuPont's own hidden 1981 pregnancy study, appears as himself in Dark Waters.
