Cast George Clooney
Tom Wilkinson
Tilda Swinton
Sydney Pollack
Screenwriter
Tony Gilroy
Director
Tony Gilroy
Running Time
120 minutes
Arthur Edens (Wilkinson), a lawyer defending an agro-chemical corporation against a class-action suit, is overwhelmed by guilt and cracks up. Michael Clayton (Clooney), his law firm’s ‘fixer’, is sent to sort Arthur out, but the corporation deploy even dirtier tricks to solve the problem.
I wanted to know a great deal more about the case but it was portrayed almost as just something incidental, one of many things going wrong in a bad four days of his life, when surely it was or should have been the focus of the film.
