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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Director:
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Tony Gilroy
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Actors:
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Thomas McCarthy,
Denis O'Hare,
Julie White,
Frank Wood,
Danielle Skraastad,
Alberto Vazquez,
Wai Chan,
Brian Koppelman,
Tom Wilkinson,
Michael O'Keefe,
Sydney Pollack,
Tilda Swinton,
George Clooney,
Austin Williams,
Jennifer Van Dyck
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)111.5
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Plot Summary:
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Michael Clayton, a high-priced-law-firm's fixer, leaves a late-night poker misrepresent, gets a call to suggest to Westchester, and watches his wheels blow up as he's entrancing an impromptu become apparent pad by way of a expertise. Hasten past due four days. He owes a shark to covering his fellow-citizen's debts (Michael's own gambling habits have left him virtually broke). His law unwavering is negotiating a intoxication-stakes pooling, and his decisive's six-year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at endanger when one of the condensed's top litigators goes open his meds and put... s the covering in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to wreak vengeance on things, someone decides to d‚nouement him. Who? Meanwhile, his son summarizes the plot of a dark pipedream novel.
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Michael Clayton
Brian LowrySpare and unhurried, writer Tony Gilroy's directorial debut features strong performances and a solid story, drawn from the familiar well of faceless corporations grinding ordinary people through their profit-making machinery. Yet Gilroy's fidelity to his script comes at the expense of the pacing, which initially lumbers forward so assiduously as to feel like a throwback to an earlier era. If George Clooney's recent choices have oscillated between serious showcases (think Syriana) and moneymaking endeavors (the Ocean's series), this falls squarely into the former camp, presenting Warner Bros. with a classy but difficult-to-market, no-frills, few-thrills thriller.
Having written the first two installments in the Bourne trilogy (and co-written the third),...
Michael Clayton
Kenneth TuranAfter what must seem like a lifetime of writing screenplays for other people to direct, Tony Gilroy has come out from behind the curtain. With the George Clooney-starring Michael Clayton, he's not only saved his best script for himself, he's also turned out a smart and suspenseful legal thriller that comes completely alive on-screen.
Watching this film makes you feel that Gilroy, best known for writing credits on all three Bourne films, has poured the energy pent up during a decade and a half in Hollywood into this strong and confident directorial debut about desperate men searching for redemption in a cold and ruthless world. In Michael Clayton, Gilroy's been helped by an excellent cast that relishes the script's texture, starting with Cloon...
Michael Clayton
Claudia PuigIt's a powerful and unsettling way to start a movie: A rambling, stream-of-consciousness monologue by a clearly disturbed person accosts us as a series of seemingly disconnected but tense visuals play out. The viewer is set on edge from the start of Michael Clayton and remains so as the complex story unfolds. It's a rare film that can challenge our minds and rattle our nerves so profoundly. This is unequivocally a thriller for adults. A deftly written, tautly suspenseful and intellectually demanding morality tale, it stays a step ahead of the audience and features multidimensional characters played by actors at the top of their games. The pace and style harks back to such classics of the '70s as All the President's Men or Network. This legal-eco-t...
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