Article: Complex Clayton' is one of last year's best

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Meet Michael Clayton, the poster child for multitasking.

Clayton (George Clooney) is a single father, a failed restaurateur and a high-stakes poker player (some would say gambling addict), but he spends most of his time working as the "fixer" - kind of a one-man triage unit - for the prestigious New York law firm of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen.

In fact, Kenner, Bach & Ledeen keep Clayton on his cell phone just about 24/7 and would gladly have him working 25/7 or 26/8, if that were chronometrically possible. That's because Kenner, Bach & Ledeen is itself tied up, both in merger talks with a giant British firm which is never named and in defending its client, ...

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