Families try to prevent film about their plight

WOBURN, Mass. Parents whose children were sickened or evenkilled by a notorious pollution case are upset about the way theirstory might get told on the movie screen, even if it gets a big starlike John Travolta.

The families who sued to make chemical companies pay forpolluting their drinking water never got the compensation theywanted, and they say their plight at times got lost in legalwrangling.

And now, mindful of a story that stands to reach millions ofpeople at movie theaters nationwide, the families are pushing for anew law that would require movie producers to get people's permissionbefore making a film about their lives."Once the trial started, I don't …