Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house
"fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former
criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's
dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney
Pollack). Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer,
his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left
Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the
career of litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) rests on the
multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's
firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner
Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson)
sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his
career and his life.
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