Michael Clayton - "I'm not the enemy"

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, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.

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• michael
• clayton
• george
• clooney
• tom
• wilkinson
• tilda
• swinton
• sydney
• pollack
• tony
• gilroy

[TheHockeyCentral]

Sad that it looked like Arthur was getting back on track right before he was killed.

Also scary because I'm sure this stuff goes on all the time and we don't even hear about it.

[illadvised50]

Great scene.

[fuckyouvevo123]

@TheHockeyCentral Christ just look up Monsanto, I'm pretty sure they based a lot of things on it.

[BigCountryJASon]

Finally watched this film...it's a WINNER!

[nedalnekbrad]

@CTrace Michael clayton defender of the society ? come on ....I think a lot of people miss an extremely important point : michael clayton SOLD OUT arthur for 80 grands and solving his own problems . He had the memo by this point , he had his doubts . It s only because of the failed bombing that he reopened the case , only because they pushed him and made it personal . If tilda swinton character hadn t been so desperate and amateur at this , it would have been swept under the carpet .

[vince7]

@CTrace I think you mean Arthur Edens because it was really him that was trying to bring down U-North throughout the entire movie. Michael just finished the job, which he only did after he found the red documents and after they bombed his car.

[MattDLD333]

@gatoradeee defending

[flanissimo]

@olivemike81 that is the crux of the whole movie because the main character developing is what this movie, more than in many other movies, is about. It really would not be such a great movie were it not for Clooney and that great Brit. The acting makes it great, really, because although Hollywood attacking Corporate America is a good thing, it gets tiresome sometimes.

[gatoradeee]

is Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's prosecuting or defending U-North?

[satiricarl]

pointy bread