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Michael Clayton

The truth is what he makes it.

Our hero, Michael Clayton, is a 'fixer' at a top law firm. It's his job to fix legal messes, whatever it takes. A fellow fixer, pained by his conscience, throws a wobbly in court during an important case, and Michael is roped in to sort out the situation. Michael has some issues of his own though, including a large debt that he has to pay off, and a gambling problem. Complicating matters more is the female corporate lawyer from the client, who is determined to nail his friend. The film is one of this year's top Oscar contenders.

118 minutes, No persons under 13 (Language)
Drama, Thriller, On the art circuit

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Credits
Cast	George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Ken Howard
Director	Tony Gilroy
Screenplay	Tony Gilroy
Music	James Newton Howard
Cinematography	Robert Elswit
Editing	John Gilroy
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2007
Produced by	Samuels Media, Castle Rock Entertainment, Mirage Enterprises, Section Eight
SA Distributor	Nu Metro

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Trailer: Medium

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama, thriller
Language	Medium to high frequency, strong
Nudity	Low to none
Sex	None
Violence	Occasional but intense
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	Infrequent use of profanities like ''for Chrissakes'', ''Jesue'', etc may offend Christian viewers and possibly be seen as blasphemous.
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ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross	Guns / Weapons	Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs	Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour	Frightening / Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarDebashine Thangevelo	15
Die BurgerJacques Liebenberg	10
Cape TimesKenneth Turan	15
iAfrica.comNils van der Linden	18
The CitizenNatalie Bosman	16
Sunday TimesBarry Ronge	15
24.comMegan Kakora	10
International Media
BBC (UK)Laura Bushell	10
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert	20
eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson	10
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli	15
Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers	18
ScreenIt (USA)	14
Metacritic.com36 critics	16
RottenTomatoes.com175 critics	15
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer	18
Internet (IMDB)15741 Netizens	15

Average .. 74%	14

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