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Year of U.S. Release: 2007
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack .
Director: Tony Gilroy Screenwriter(s): Tony Gilroy
Producer(s): George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh, Steve Samuels Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Prod. Company: Section Eight, Samuels Media, Castle Rock Entertainment
Genre(s): Drama, Suspense, Thriller Runtime: 1 hr. 59 min. U.S. Release Date: October 05, 2007 (Limited)
DVD Release Date: February 19, 2008
Rated for language including some sexual dialogue.
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An elite New York attorney is known among his colleagues as “The Janitor” because for fifteen years he's worked behind the scenes to clean up his high-profile clients' messy personal problems. Story takes place over the four worst days of his career.
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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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