Taking Back Our Town

Taking Back Our Town is a 2001 film with Laura Innes and Ruby Dee. See the storyline, runtime (90 minutes) and complete cast list on 123movies. A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, fledgling activitsts face the full force of Shintech's wealth and influence peddling, which has bought the cooperation of the government from the local level all the way up to the Governor's office.