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."
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This slaps the piss out of every person who made a joke about that old lady who sued McDonald's over the coffee being too hot. It was too hot, it was almost boiling and they had a long list of burn complaints already. This little old lady just happened to be the kind of person they weren't afraid to crush under their foot by misleading the public - and we all bought it.

A glaring look at how the media, industries, and insurance companies took an innocent woman and threw her under the bus, leaving a long legacy of government (mostly W. Bush) limiting how people can sue big business, limiting our rights and freedom in favor of big business…