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Michael Clayton

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A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit. From TMDB

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  • John Scalzi @scalzi.comBluesky · Dec 15, 2025

    Rob Reiner directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride. His production company also made movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise and Michael Clayton. The film industry has lost one of its titans.

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  • Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    Youtube movie clips used to be titled "The Meeting - Michael Clayton (2007) (3/10)" and now they're all like "George Clooney Shocked When He Learns The Truth"

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  • Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2025

    If you enjoyed ANDOR and still haven’t seen MICHAEL CLAYTON, do yourself a favor. Different genre but same writer-director, the brilliant Tony Gilroy. It’s so great.

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  • Peter @notalawyer.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 12, 2024

    a quick note and an apology: in this episode I let my co-host slip in a comment disparaging Michael Clayton (2007). As someone who represents the straight boy community on this show, I should have stood up for the film. I will be better and I will do better.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 22, 2024

    I know this isn’t a musical but we should put Michael Clayton back in theaters and all go dressed as the characters and say our favorite lines in unison with the film

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  • Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    “I’m not the enemy.” MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007) This terrific Movie opened 19yrs ago today. #TomWilkinson #GeorgeClooney

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  • Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2025

    Michael Clayton one of the great "tired guy" movies. It's a movie I think a lot of as someone who is tired and rundown all of the time now

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  • priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2025

    haven't seen Andor yet but I absolutely co-sign on this Michael Clayton rec. perfect movie

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  • Anil Dash @anildash.comBluesky · Dec 7, 2023

    Michael Clayton would be a perfect film if they had more clearly tied it into the rest of the MCU

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  • Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2023

    I'm Michael Clayton pilled now. I need a second movie like Michael Clayton. Tell me another movie like Michael Clayton.

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  • The New York Times @nytimes.comBluesky · Dec 30, 2023

    Tom Wilkinson, a versatile actor who won Oscar nominations and plaudits for his performances in movies like “Michael Clayton” and “The Full Monty,” died on Saturday at 75.

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  • Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2025

    This movie rocks it's like if Michael Clayton fucked

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  • alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2026

    watched the 2007 legal thriller Michael Clayton for the first time last night and aside from everything else it's neat to see a movie where no one, not one single character, summarizes the plot and/or stakes for the audience

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  • Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 3, 2026

    the kids were upset when they overheard our plan to watch a movie tonight. the 8-year-old was like "without US? how DARE you!" and i was like "it is a GROWN UP movie about LAWYERS" but now i wish I'd responded by making them sit and watch Michael Clayton with us. smoke the whole pack kinda thing

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  • Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2025

    Finally sat down and watched Michael Clayton, and now I need to know why I waited 18 years to see it because this movie fucking rules.

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  • K-J @kjkucharik.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    Watched Michael Clayton last night for the first time in forever and it reaffirmed for me that, *when it’s done well*, the superior movie genre is one where the ENTIRE film is just burnt out adults having tense, wordy conversations.

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  • Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dogBluesky · Jan 18, 2025

    movies i have used paramount+ to watch: - The Godfather parts I and II - Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan - The Big Short - Michael Clayton movies paramount+ thinks i want to watch: - Paw Patrol: The Movie - Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie - six more Paw Patrol tv specials

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  • Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 15, 2024

    Michael Clayton is a Christmas movie if you watch it on Christmas, as I intend to

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  • Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    COWBOY: This here fella says he ain’t never seen the 2007 Tony Gilroy movie Michael Clayton! OTHER COWBOYS [SIMULTANEOUSLY]: Michael Clayton!???

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  • The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    I watched Michael Clayton over the weekend, and not only was it a great movie, a whole panoply of Internet references has now been opened to me, like how I imagine it goes for people that watch Marge vs The Monorail for the first time

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  • mtsw @mtsw.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2026

    Just while we're all MICHAEL CLAYTON-posting one thing I really like about the movie that I never hear anyone talk about is how hyper-specifically it's set in the contemporary late 00s, a surprising rarity in an era where period pieces were seemingly over-represented.

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  • Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.comBluesky · Apr 2, 2026

    MICHAEL CLAYTON is a tremendous corporate thriller, but on a rewatch it's really striking how from a craft-construction perspective, people turn to the camera approximately every 15 minutes and ask "Who is Michael Clayton?" which is good actually! it's the question that drives the movie!

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  • SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.comBluesky · Nov 21, 2025

    Michael Clayton is the movie you cannot describe and you cannot sell. But it is the movie that changes everything about how you see and how you tell.

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  • Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2024

    FPOTUS has now attacked George Clooney for never making any good movies. For my money (as a New York lawyer who spent most of my career in AmLaw100 firms dealing with criminal and civil litigation), Michael Clayton is an ALL-TIME great movie and a GREAT performance. No political takes, please.

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  • Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    Been trying to figure out who Trey Yesavage reminds me of. Finally got it! He looks like a young version of my friend Sean Cullen, veteran actor who played George Clooney’s brother in MICHAEL CLAYTON.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2026

    Also Michael Clayton, dad movie through and through

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  • Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    Was saving for Friday, but we need some levity. 2000s (00-09) movie draft. You get one in each category, my picks included. Drama: Michael Clayton Action/adventure: Bourne Identity Horror: Exorcism of Emily Rose Comedy: Mean Girls Romance: Amelie Oscar Winner: No Country for Old Men

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2026

    That movie becomes a lot more fun if you imagine hearing a constant stream of consciousness from Michael Clayton but he’s comically dumb and going “oh brother!” to everything that happens

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  • Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    Once again, I rewatched Michael Clayton. As a former prosecutor who knocked around for decades at AmLaw100 firms without making equity partner, it remains my favorite movie. I’m really happy to have directed my career in a new direction. Sydney Pollack was perfect.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2023

    I know Michael Clayton is a bit of a meme at this point for movies that people over 30 love but he was so fucking good in Michael Clayton. It’s a role that could have good sideways from being over the top or strange but he just fucking nailed it www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

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  • Carmen Vitali @carmiev.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2024

    Me after TNF: “Wanna watch a Christmas movie?” My fiancé: “I kind of want to watch Michael Clayton.” Me: “oh?” Fiancé: “It’s about corporate espionage.” Me: “Oh… OH”

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  • Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2023

    Do I get paid more if I watch the Tony Gilmore-directed film Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney as Michael Clayton? No, and I don't know why you'd say that. Seems like something Michael Clayton would do.

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  • Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2023

    Just rewatched “Michael Clayton” (2007) in honor of Tom Wilkinson. Good lord, that’s a great movie.

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  • TheRealJims @therealjims.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    It feels like a Roger Rabbit follow up in the sense that there is dark cynicism underlying the cartoony mayhem. Except instead of parodying film noir, this is basically Michael Clayton or Erin Brockovich. It's so weird to make a legal thriller with Looney Tunes characters but somehow it works 🤔

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  • Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2025

    BREAKING: Michael Clayton is still a perfect movie.

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  • Climate News @climatenews.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 23, 2025

    This trailer of the blockbuster Hollywood legal film Michael Clayton with George Clooney and Tilda Swinton, has all the legal environmental and societal ingredients for a 2025 legal thriller - but it’s set in 2007!

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  • Frankenbert Graveyardko @albertburneko.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2024

    Tom Wilkinson's performance in Michael Clayton is among my favorite acting jobs by anyone in anything, and I'm so glad we have this blog about it defector.com/tom-wilkinso...

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  • Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    This was kind of like Michael Clayton if Michael Clayton stayed a shithead the whole movie

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Jun 29, 2025

    Michael Clayton is such an underrated movie and I wish people would talk about it more in the specific context of "if you just watched Andor and want more of that" sense too

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 28, 2025

    Douthat had the superficial observation that Michael Clayton is a “left wing film” because the bad guys were in corporate and Gilroy was like “what’s left or right about being against pesticide poisoning”

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Jun 3, 2025

    btw I only put together in my head recently that Tony Gilroy of Andor was Tony Gilroy of Michael Clayton anyway Michael Clayton is a good movie&ALSO I kind of think Gilroy may have a bit of a "I hate girlbosses" thing going on but that's also my way of saying "the villain of MC is basically Dedra"

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  • Liz Roscher @lizroscher.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    I’ve decided today is “Michael Clayton” Day, the day I will watch the movie “Michael Clayton” for the first time.

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  • Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2026

    Tom Wilkinson's 15 baguettes from the film 'Michael Clayton' will return in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

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  • Rob Hatch-Miller @robhatchmiller.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 1, 2025

    an exceptional night of LA repertory film, flawless 35mm print of Michael Clayton at @vidiots.bsky.social with writer/director and Rogue One/Andor mastermind Tony Gilroy Q&A - his first time watching the movie in 18 years (and my first time)

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  • Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2023

    RIP Tom Wilkinson. My favorite movie of his is Michael Clayton, but what are some less well known and / or underrated ones?

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  • Sean Kelly @storyslug.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    I still say "John Carter" might've succeeded if the title had any indication of what the movie was about. My ex-wife kept confusing it with "Michael Clayton."

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  • theJLM / Jeremiah Lee McVay (he/him) @thejlm.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    The last 4 movies I watched... Mary Poppins The Nice Guys Michael Clayton The Silence of the Lambs #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky boxd.it/Iqj

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  • Niko Stratis @nikostratis.comBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    The Michael Clayton school of film making tells you one thing: a good movie kills the man you're rooting for despite all odds, a great movie gives him a big bag of baguettes first.

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  • Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    Thinking about Richard Kind in the place of Tom Wilkinson (who is very, very good) in Michael Clayton and how much better that movie that would have been. Just think about it

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  • ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contactBluesky · Jan 29, 2025

    A friend on here recommended yesterday I watch the excellent film MICHAEL CLAYTON, which is about an attorney trying to help another attorney who’s going through a psychotic break but also has stumbled on to a real conspiracy (cont’d)

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  • Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.comBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    Loved COYOTE VS. ACME, a movie about life lived according to one's principles. Reminded me a lot of MICHAEL CLAYTON so good. #CoyoteVsAcme

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  • Felonious Monk @alexqgb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2025

    Michael Clayton is not underrated. People either know it's the best movie of the aughts or they don't know enough about movies to rate them in the first place.

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2026

    The credits mean the movie is over! One more exception: when the last scene of the movie plays over the start of the end credits (MICHAEL CLAYTON, CACHE, LA CEREMONIE), I like this when it happens

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  • Max’s Dad @djwyszynski.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2025

    Well we could just watch Michael Clayton over and over and over and over again. It's a perfect movie - like Jaws. I mean come on....

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  • Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.comBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    In further "guess I know why I'm like this" my mom seems to have agreed that to celebrate finishing radiation treatment tomorrow we should watch the movie Michael Clayton

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  • Kevin Allender @kevinallender.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2024

    Michael Clayton heads when they’re convinced by a child that Realm and Conquest is the key to the whole friggin movie

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  • Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2024

    We finally saw the 2007 film "Michael Clayton" with George Clooney and Tilda Swinton on Netflix and loved it. Clooney plays a "fixer" tasked with a corporate law firm's dirtiest work, in a stylish film noir for the post-Monsanto age. Brilliantly acted and written.

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  • Ben Carlson @bencarlson007.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    I know all the film geeks love Michael Clayton but this is actually George Clooney’s best serious movie performance (I might be on an island w/this take but I’m ok w/that)

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  • Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2026

    My wife has never seen Michael Clayton. So that’s what we are doing tonight. Man I love this movie.

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  • Mutual I'm Sure @mutualimsure.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    Today's first movie is Michael Clayton (2007) 🍿

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