The 1994 lawsuit over a spilled McDonald's coffee cup became late-night shorthand for frivolous litigation, and this film goes back to find out what actually happened to Stella Liebeck, the 79-year-old plaintiff who suffered third-degree burns and initially just wanted her medical bills covered. Director Susan Saladoff, a former public-interest lawyer, uses that case as the entry point into a broader look at tort reform, tracing how insurance companies and corporate lobbyists shaped the public narrative around lawsuits. Three other Americans carry the rest of the film: a boy born with cerebral palsy after a botched delivery, capped by damage limits before his case reaches trial; a Mississippi judge running for reelection against a flood of undisclosed corporate campaign money; and a Halliburton employee whose sexual assault claim gets sealed inside mandatory arbitration. Interviews with lawyers, judges, and the plaintiffs themselves lay out how each system, caps on damages, judicial elections, arbitration clauses, was built and who benefits. The film's case is that a familiar joke conceals a quieter fight over whether ordinary people can hold corporations accountable at all.