Michael Clayton (2007) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	October 5, 2007 (LA/NY) October 12, 2007 January 25, 2008 (Re-Release)
On DVD:	February 19, 2008
Genre:	Drama
Director:	Tony Gilroy
Writer:	Tony Gilroy
Cast:	George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Pamela Gray
Studio:	Warner Brothers
Official site:	michaelclayton.com
Running Time:	120 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for language including some sexual dialogue

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) 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 (Sydney Pollack). 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,...

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Wow, what a year 2007 has been. And it's only October. Last year, we were scraping bottom well into late November before good movies started cropping up, but 2007 has been gifted with all kinds of really good movies, from comedies (Knocked Up, Hot Fuzz, Superbad) to action (300, The Bourne Ultimatum, Transformers) to dramas (Eastern Promises, Zodiac, Rescue Dawn), and that's only to name a few. Now, we have Michael Clayton, George Clooney's latest drama-thriller.

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