Cynthia Mace

Michael Clayton -- Michael Clayton, a former prosecutor, takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's 'dirty work.' The firm's top litigator sabotages a case and the firm sends Clayton to tackle this disaster.

Blast from the Past -- A man raised in a 1950s era bomb shelter emerges into the outside world for the first time to find a nice nonmutant girl with whom to repopulate the earth--and meets a savvy, cynical modern woman.

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. At the behest of the firm's co- founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack), Clayton, a former prosecutor from a family of cops, takes care of Kenner, Bach and Ledeen's dirtiest work. Clayton cleans up clients' messes, handling anything from hit-and-runs and damaging stories in the press to shoplifting wives and crooked politicians. Though burned out and discontented in his job, Clayton is inextricably tied to the firm. At the agrochemical company U/North, the career of in-house chief counsel Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) rests on the settlement of the suit that Kenner, Bach and Ledeen is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. When the firm's top litigator, the brilliant Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), has an apparent breakdown and tries to sabotage the entire case, Marty Bach sends Michael Clayton to tackle this unprecedented disaster and, in doing so, Clayton comes face to face with the reality of who he has become.

Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest law firms in New York. When the firm's top litigator has a breakdown and tries to sabotage a case, Michael is sent to fix it, only to come face to face with the reality of who he has become.