{"id":1380,"date":"2008-02-19T03:57:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T02:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/19\/dvd-pick-michael-clayton\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T04:01:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T03:01:02","slug":"dvd-pick-michael-clayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/02\/19\/dvd-pick-michael-clayton\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD Pick: Michael Clayton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michael<\/a>This week sees the release of Michael Clayton<\/strong><\/a> on DVD in the UK.<\/p>\n

Although it got a lot of award nominations<\/a> and critical praise<\/a>, this brilliant legal thriller didn’t quite do the box office business it deserved in the US or over here.<\/p>\n

Despite the presence of A-lister George Clooney<\/a> and some fantastic performances from superb supporting cast (including the likes of Tom Wilkinson<\/a>, Tilda Swinton<\/a> and Sydney Pollack<\/a>) I think some people mistook it for some kind of John Grisham<\/a>-style pot boiler.<\/p>\n

In truth, it is a glorious throwback to 70s style conspiracy thrillers like The Parallax View<\/a> and All the President’s Men<\/a>, as writer-director Tony Gilroy<\/a> explores the dark side of corporate America and the moral dilemas of those trapped in that world.<\/p>\n

Clooney plays the title character, a fixer at a prestigious New York law firm who is facing a personal and professional crisis.<\/p>\n

When one of his bosses (Tom Wilkinson) has an embarrasing breakdown in the middle of a huge class-action lawsuit involving a giant corporation, Michael is sent to sort things out. But he soon discovers that things are not what they seem.<\/p>\n

Check out the trailer here:<\/p>\n

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Also, this interview Clooney did with Charlie Rose<\/a> is interesting:<\/p>\n

[googlevideo]http:\/\/video.google.co.uk\/videoplay?docid=2968880446883512521[\/googlevideo]<\/p>\n

> Buy Michael Clayton on DVD from Amazon UK<\/a>
\n> IMDb entry for Michael Clayton<\/a>
\n> More reviews of Michael Clayton at Metacritic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week sees the release of Michael Clayton on DVD in the UK. Although it got a lot of award nominations and critical praise, this brilliant legal thriller didn’t quite do the box office business it deserved in the US or over here. Despite the presence of A-lister George Clooney and some fantastic performances from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}