As visually stylish as it is graphically violent, this thriller directed by Luc Besson concerns Mathilda (Natalie Portman), a 12-year-old girl living in New York City who has been exposed to the sordid side of life from an early age: her family lives in a slum and her abusive father works for drug ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1994 | Running Time: 109 minutes
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With his breakthrough, La Femme Nikita, director Luc Besson injected operatic, Die Hard-style Hollywood action into a European-style storyline; in his first Hollywood feature, Léon (retitled The Professional for U.S. release), he did the opposite, creating a cross between a placid, neorealist fable and a pyrotechnics-laden action movie. Jean Reno is convincing as the quiet, stealthy New York City hitman who reluctantly takes in a rough-hewn, 12-year-old apprentice killer (Natalie Portman, in her ...more
- Jean Reno - Leon
- Natalie Portman - Mathilda
- Gary Oldman - Stansfield
- Danny Aiello - Tony
- Peter Appel - Malky
- Michael Badalucco - Mathilda's Father
- Jean-Hugues Anglade
- Kent Broadhurst - Policeman
- David W. Butler - Important Jogger
- Tommy Hollis - Policeman
- Samy Naceri - SWAT Team
- Joseph Malerba - Stairway Swat
- Marc Andréoni - SWAT Team
- Frank Senger - Fatman
- Luc Besson - Director
- Claude Besson - Executive Producer
- Patrice Ledoux - Producer
- Luc Besson - Producer
- Luc Besson - Screenwriter
- Carol Nast - Art Director
- Gerard Drolon - Art Director
- Todd Thaler - Casting
- Nathalie Cheron - Casting
- Magali Guidasci - Costume Designer
- Pascal Chaumeil - First Assistant Director
- Sylvie Landra - Editor
- Eric Serra - Composer (Music Score)
- Pierre Excoffier - Musical Direction/Supervision











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