Michael Clayton

(2007)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 2,056 votes

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Crime

Year: 2007

Runtime: 119 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Тони Гилрой

Cast: Джордж Клуни, Том Уилкинсон, Тильда Суинтон, Сидни Поллак, Майкл О'Киф, Кен Ховард, Sean Cullen, Мерритт Уивер, Austin Williams, Robert Prescott

Plot

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm's fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling habits have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel.