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Article: The Film Michael Clayton Certificate 15General release [Derived headline]

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September 29, 2007
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The Film

Michael Clayton

Certificate 15General release

In Tony Gilroy's directorial debut, George Clooney plays Michael Clayton, a suave but burned-out backroom fixer for a high-powered New York law firm. When Tom Wilkinson's guilt-ridden attorney sabotages a major case, Clayton faces the largest challenge of his career. Tilda Swinton and Sydney Pollack star in this slick conspiracy thriller.

"Gilroy's corporate conspiracy thriller opens with such a powerful sense of foreboding that the ceiling could cave in and you'd still be sitting there, gripped... Sydney Pollack is mesmerising as this thoroughly unsurprisable old hand... Expertly paced, tautly written and superbly cast, it may turn out ...

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