События фильма разворачиваются преимущественно на Манхэттене начала 1980-х годов, когда был зафиксирован всплеск уровня преступности. Главный герой — иммигрант из латинской Америки, прибывший в США с амбициозными мечтами и вскоре действительно добившийся большого успеха в бизнесе. Однако уличная преступность, охватившая Нью-Йорк, коррупция и моральное разложение создают для него и его семьи большие проблемы.
Michael Clayton 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. 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 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 sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Cast: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack
Directed by Tony Gilroy
Movie in English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.