Michael Clayton
2007
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Director: Tony Gilroy
Cast: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollack, Sean Cullen
Screenwriter Tony Gilroy's directorial debut is a tense, atmospheric and finely nuanced drama about a middle-aged man whose life has been a series of disappointments. He's a lawyer who's stuck doing the dirty work for the firm. Now he must try and reign in one of the senior partners who's about to jeopardise a multi-million dollar class action suit. Tilda Swinton won an Oscar for her supporting performance, but the cast is uniformly strong.
