Michael Clayton R

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Michael Clayton
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 19, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Warner Home Video

Performers, Cast and Crew:

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Directed by
Screenwriting by
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Executive Production by , , &

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 2007 - Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh91%

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Upright69%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 299,909
[A] terrifically engrossing, tethered-to-the-real-world drama....It's better than good; it's such a crackling and mature and accomplished movie that it just about restores your faith.
Entertainment Weekly
Oct 12, 2007
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [T]he film is a triumph for George Clooney, who is at the top of his dramatic form in the title role...
Rolling Stone
Oct 18, 2007
Rating: 8/10 -- There's a lot of skill involved in Michael Clayton and an understated, ambiguous hero that's becoming rare in modern film. Even if under its subtle surface there isn't really much there, the surface is good enough to make it worthwhile. Full Review
ComingSoon.net
Apr 8, 2011
Clooney can suggest depths of weary self-loathing...and his eventual hard-won redemption accordingly carries more emotional weight....Gilroy draws vivid performances from his cast...
Sight and Sound
Oct 1, 2007
Equates serious inquiry with inert filmmaking Full Review
CinePassion
Aug 27, 2009
Rating: B+ -- Clooney's glamorous intelligence is deepened by his constant hints that slickness, like corporate integrity, is just an act. Full Review
I.E. Weekly
Feb 22, 2008
[A] solid, well-crafted, beautifully written and acted thriller....The execution is splendid and the dramatic payoff is considerable...
Film Comment
Jan 1, 2008

Product Description:

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is what is known in the legal world as a "fixer," or in the character's own pejorative version, a "janitor" who cleans up legal messes for VIPs and corporations on behalf of a prestigious New York City law firm. A former litigator, Clayton has found a niche that capitalizes on his legal acumen and shrewd people skills, and yet, after 13 years on the job, finds himself increasingly disgusted with his clientele. The film covers four pivotal days of his life, in which a midlife crisis and a crisis of conscience neatly converge when he is called in to "fix" a situation unfolding in one of his firm's hottest cases. Brilliant lawyer Arthur Edens (another powerhouse performance by Tom Wilkinson), representing a huge agro-chemical corporation being hit by a class action suit, has a bipolar breakdown, compounded by guilt over his defense of a company that is probably in the wrong, but is wealthy enough to buy its innocence either way. The company's CEO (Tilda Swinton) will stop at nothing to keep Edens from sinking the case. Clayton must decide how much of Edens's mad rebellion against the company is sheer mental illness, how much is true, and how much it will cost him to do the right thing.

Clooney delivers a rich performance as a hangdog and haunted man who wants to stay on the side of good, but is a little too skilled at moral margin-walking to make that an easy choice in every situation. Swinton glows as a secretly frail Amazon who somehow won't let a tortured conscience prevent her from getting ahead. The final third of the film is as suspenseful as any courtroom drama, without ever resorting to legal-thriller cliches.

Description by Warner Home Video:

Attorney Michael Clayton is a "fixer," the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he's handed a crisis even he may not be able to fix. The firm's top litigator in a $3-billion case has gone from advocate to whistleblower. And the more Michael tries to undo the damage, the more he's up against forces that put corporate survival over human life - including Michael's. George Clooney portrays Michael, backed into a career corner that offers little room to fight free in this suspense-and star-packed thriller written and directed by Tony Gilroy (writer/co-writer of the "Bourne" movie trilogy). Keep your eyes on "Michael Clayton." He has some life-or-death decisions to make. Fast.

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Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 115,744
  • UPC: 085391142560
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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