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Michael Clayton
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Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But, when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
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Tom Wilkinson and George Clooney are both excellent as lawyers at a firm that represents an agribusiness in the slowly unfolding but sharp thriller, written and directed by Tony Gilroy, which examines morals and truth.
Michael Clayton ***1/2:Clooney as the bad guy
By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic
Posted 10/04/2007
Michael Clayton is a first-rate thriller about a second-rate guy, a Manhattan lawyer who is least likely to make partner. As played by George Clooney, suffering from apparent cirrhosis of the conscience, Michael is a legal janitor who mops up messes left by the partners and their entitled clients. » Read more
MPAA rating:
R
for language including some sexual dialogue
Cast:
Sydney Pollack; Denis O'Hare; Michael O'Keefe; Tom Wilkinson; Jennifer Ehle; Austin Williams; Robert Prescott; Tilda Swinton; George Clooney; Ken Howard
Directed by:
Tony Gilroy
On the web:
 
Michael Clayton Official Site
Genre:
Drama; Suspense, Thriller
Running time:
02:00
Release date:
2007
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