Synopsis

Hot Coffee (2011)

Most people think they know the “McDonald’s coffee case,” but what they don’t know is that corporations have spent millions distorting the case to promote tort reform. HOT COFFEE reveals how big business, aided by the media, brewed a dangerous concoction of manipulation and lies to protect corporate interests. By following four people whose lives were devastated by the attacks on our courts, the film challenges the assumptions Americans hold about “jackpot justice.”
Susan Saladoff
Joan Claybrook, Oliver Diaz, Joanne Doroshow, Al Franken, Colin Gourley, Connor Gourley, John Grisham, Jamie Leigh Jones, Stephanie Mencimer, Victor Schwartz, Wayne Slater, Chris Tiano, Alex Winslow, Chuck Allen, Judy Allen, Jay Angoff, David Arredondo, Tom Baker, Paul Bland, Kenneth Canfield, Ralph Cook, Jennifer Diaz, Betty Farnham, Marjorie Getman, Lisa Gourley, Mike Gourley, Ernest ‘Sonny’ Hornsby, George Lakoff, Barbara Liebeck, Michael McCann, Craig McDonald, Robert McDuff, Chuck McRae, Ted Poe, Nancy Tiano, Ken Wagner, Peter Whitted, Ken Zeese
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