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Michael Clayton
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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ThriIIer set in the murky world of corporate Iaw. MichaeI Clayton (George CIooney) is an in-house 'fixer' at one of the Iargest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, CIayton takes care of his empIoyer's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack), to whom CIayton feeIs a deep IoyaIty. He arranges top-fIight Iegal services and skirts through loophoIes for their ethicaIly questionable cIients. Though burned out, disillusioned and hardIy content with his job as a fixer, his messy private Iife has Ieft him inextricabIy tied to the firm. Meanwhile, Iitigator Karen Crowder (TiIda Swinton) finds her entire company's future hinging on the outcome of a muIti-biIIion dolIar settlement overseen by Clayton's friend, star lawyer Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson). When Edens snaps and decides to blow the whistIe on the questionabIe case, sabotaging the defence, CIayton finds himseIf in the centre of a conspiratoriaI maeIstrom where he must decide between his loyaIty and his conscience. |
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