Michael Clayton is an Academy Award nominated dramatic law thriller film written and directed by Tony Gilroy, co-produced by George Clooney, and starring Clooney, Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton to cope with a colleague's apparent mental breakdown and corruption within a major client of his law firm.Michael Clayton is an attorney and former gambling addict employed as a "fixer" at a prestigious law firm in New York City. After meeting with a colleague's key client who had accidentally struck a pedestrian with his car, Clayton spots some horses near the side of the road. He stops driving, leaves his car and climbs a hill to go admire the animals, and his car explodes in a fireball.
