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A Fixer, Gangster and Survivor

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2007-12-16 23:34:00 by Sachin G. in Scribbles and Ramblings
...fixer -- he patches things up or does whatever is required for the good of the firm. He works off the radar and on the company record books, his job is insignificant. Only the firm's senior partners recognize his value and in case the senior partners disappeared one day, Clayton would be the first to be fired At the core, the story is about...
 
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Robert Schwentke to direct 'Venus Fixer'

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2008-11-21 00:43:12 by Franck Tabouring in The Screening Log
...Fixer," which is based on a true story Variety says the film follows a Holocaust survivor who assists the American military to locate a ruthless killer on the loose in postwar Berlin The trade says J.C. Pollack, who writes novels under pseudonym James Elliott, wrote the script. Some of Pollack's work includes "End Game" and "Nowhere to Hide...
 
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Michael Clayton (2006) - As an ode to the morally complex and ambivalent genre films of the 1970s, MICHAEL CLAYTON is a searing and evocative politica

2007-10-19 00:47:03 by craiger in Craiger's Cinema Corner
 
...fixer, or as he refers to himself at one point, a janitor. He takes care of problems and cleans up messes, the kind that usually dont gain the type of respect that they deserve. Best of all - and like all people that work under less than prestigious occupations - Clayton is a staunch pragmatist. Hes not afraid to tell someone to their face...
 
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Michael Clayton DVD

2008-02-15 21:40:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...fixer, his job involves mopping up everybody elses messy situations, even if that might sometimes mean breaking the law. But nothing in his checkered career has prepared him for the chain of events about to unfold in the wake of the mental breakdown of Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson). Edens is the colleague in charge of defending a...
 
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Claude Chabrol's LA RUPTURE (1970)

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2008-02-28 17:07:00 by Robert Monell in I'M IN A JESS FRANCO STATE OF MIND
...fixer, seems to redefine evil as a laugh riot in which his level of fun is as important as the incredibly complicated web he spins for Helene. He and his girlfriend just want to have fun as they move on up into the next social class. The fact that he destroys lives doesn't seem to be a problem for him. It's just something he does remarkably...
 
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Review: Eureka - Season Three Premiere on Sci Fi - Photos

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2008-07-29 12:41:42 by Jason the TVaholic in TVaholic.com
...fixer, to conduct a review of Global Dynamics. The test doesnt go well when one of the attack drones goes rogue and endangers the town. Carter finds that the drone is a learning computer and is learning at an astonishing rate. Carter sets out to fix yet another problem created by the brilliant people of Eureka Review: Eureka makes its return...
 
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Promises Promises

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2007-10-27 13:13:00 by John in Confessions of a Film Critic
...fixer Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen Having girded us with a splashy opening, Cronenberg never lifts his mood of all-pervasive threat. This is a hardcore world, d rawn in vivid reds and watery greys, under clouded skies and along steepled streets, peopled with unstable brutes and their scattered victims. Semyon, for all his twinkling charm, is a...
 
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The Best and Worst of 2007

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2007-12-19 19:03:00 by John in Confessions of a Film Critic
...fixer. Bleak and smart, it was filled with ideas and talking points Notes On A Scandal Dench and Blanchett teamed up for this blistering revenge story, a portrait of a demented bitch that never flinched from honest depiction Apocalypto Say what you like about Mel Gibson, he can make action movies. Non stop thrills and a vivid sense of...
 
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George Clooney: Legal Janitor

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2007-10-15 17:32:00 by Paul Matwychuk in The Moviegoer
...fixer. Youve got all the cops thinking youre a lawyer and all the lawyers thinking youre a cop, one character tells himand not affectionately. Clayton actually is a lawyer, but not the kind who ever appears in court. Clayton dismissively calls himself a janitorhes the guy who comes in to mop up the messes that the other guys at his firm cant...
 
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