MICHAEL CLAYTON is a thriller by the filmmakers behind THE FIRM and ERIN BROKOVICH. It's the story of a beaten man who tries to fix the hardest of all – his own existence and his own life… At 3:00 in the morning in a snowy Manhattan, the lights are still lit at a well-known law firm. In a prison cell in Milwaukee, a prominent lawyer describes what made him throw off his clothes in the middle of a testimony and declare his love to a nineteen-year-old girl across the courtroom. On a deserted country road, Michael Clayton stops his car at the roadside to catch some air. When he does, the car explodes. What is it that connects the three events? It is Michael Clayton. George Clooney plays “the fixer" Michael Clayton. He is recently divorced, has debts, and begins to dislike his job clean up the law firm Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest assignments. When faced with the challenge of his life, he does something he has never done before ... instead of covering up what has happened, he begins to dig into it.