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Michael Clayton

Release Date: Friday, October 5, 2007

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.

Director: Tony Gilroy

Starring: George Clooney Tom Wilkinson Tilda Swinton Sydney Pollack

R Drama 1 hr, 59 m

  • 3.6 / 5
36% 64%

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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The film's director Tony Gilroy last directed The Bourne Legacy and Duplicity. The film's writer Tony Gilroy last wrote Andor (Series) and Beirut.

Director
Tony Gilroy
Screenwriter
Producers
George Clooney
Steve Samuels
Steven Soderbergh

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Parent Rating
R Restricted for language including some sexual dialogue
Runtime
1 hr, 59 m
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Language
English

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Michael Clayton was released in on Friday, October 5, 2007. There were 3 other movies released on the same date, including The Heartbreak Kid, The Darjeeling Limited and Feel the Noise.

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