Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton


MPAA Rating: R | Year: 2007 | Running Time: 120 minutes

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Michael Clayton (George Clooney) handles all of the dirty work for a major New York law firm, arranging top-flight legal services and skirting through loopholes for ethically questionable clients. But when a fellow "fixer" decides to turn on the very firm they were hired to clean up for, Clayton ...more

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Legal dramas and corporate corruption are hardly unfamiliar fodder for Hollywood, but rarely are these topics broached in a manner that doesn't reduce them to hackeneyed, plug 'n' chug plot formulas. Conversely, Michael Clayton is no, say, Erin Brockovich; it lacks the latter's overt moralizing and muddles the delineation between good and evil. Yes, the complimentary duo of a big, bad agribusiness enterprise and its profit-hungry law firm exemplify greed, but the title character—nothing, if not ...more

Tony Gilroy's elegantly structured script for Michael Clayton offers a series of plot developments and character details that don't build so much as accumulate in the viewer's mind, until a thunderously entertaining final scene -- the kind of confrontation an old-time Hollywood mogul might call a "corker" -- pays them all off in a thrilling verbal face-off. As a first-time director, Gilroy maintains a steady, measured pace. His style serves his low-key but involving script, quietly adding layers ...more



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