Though it’s never stated outright, some digging makes clear that Edward James Olmos’s earnest antipollution drama, “The Devil Has a Name,” is based on the life of Fred Starrh, a California farmer whose business sued an energy company, claiming that byproducts from its oil extraction had breached the farm’s property and affected its groundwater’s value. (Starrh’s son Lawrence is an executive producer.) And perhaps because it was inspired by actual circumstances, “The Devil Has a Name,” at 97 minutes, shows signs of having been cut down from an intractably long and twisty story. The acting styles vary wildly. The ... (full story)