Directed by Tony Gilroy • 2007 • United States
Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton

Attorney Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a fixer, the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he’s handed a crisis even he may not be able to fix. The firm’s top litigator in a $3 billion case has gone from advocate to whistleblower. And the more Michael tries to undo the damage, the more he’s up against forces that put corporate survival over human life—including his own. Featuring an Academy Award–winning supporting turn from Tilda Swinton as a dangerously ambitious lawyer on the edge, this masterfully scripted and acted legal thriller—widely heralded as one of the best films of the twenty-first century thus far—turns every shady backroom machination into riveting moral drama.