Michael Clayton

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During a discussion of CIA operatives embedded in Hollywood, Dvorak highly recommended the George Clooney film, Michael Clayton. He described it as a great, riveting film about a fixer that works for a law firm.

Both John and Adam listed many Clooney films they like even though they believe he is a CIA asset. Some of his other mentioned films were:

The Men Who Stare at Goats (about CIA mind control experiments)
Syriana (Drones!)
The American (an assassin)
Up in the Air (corporate downsizer/rom-com)

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From Wikipedia:

Michael Clayton is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Tony Gilroy, starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton and Sydney Pollack. The film chronicles the attempts by attorney Michael Clayton to cope with a colleague’s apparent mental breakdown, and the corruption and intrigue surrounding a major client of his law firm being sued in a class action case over the effects of toxic agrochemicals.