Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
George Clooney, Johan Leysen, Paolo Bonacelli, Thekla Reuten, Violante Placido |
Director |
Anton Corbijn |
Screenplay | Rowan Joffe, from the novel by Martin Booth |
Music | Herbert Grönemeyer |
Cinematography | Martin Ruhe |
Editing | Andrew Hulme |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, DTS |
Made in | 2010 |
Produced by | Focus Features, Greenlit Rights, Smoke House, This Is That Productions |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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Genre | Action, thriller |
Language | Moderate, infrequent |
Nudity | Frequent, strong, full frontal female nudity in sexual context |
Sex | Strong, fairly frequent, intense, includes nudity and breast fondling and kissing |
Violence | Fairly frequent, bloody, graphic, gory |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | Menace and suspense are frequent. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
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Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer Script eclipses star's brilliance | 5 | |
Die Burger Mariana Malan Clooney skaflik, maar pas is traag | 10 | |
Box Office Pam Grady Too predictable to be saved by Clooney's abs. | 8 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert The film ends like a clockwork mechanism arriving at its final, clarifying tick. | 20 | |
eye Weekly Jason Anderson | 5 | |
ScreenIt T. Durgin This is one that's going to linger in the memory for a while. | 14 | |
Metacritic.com 37 critics | 12 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 197 critics | 13 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer As beautifully shot as it is emotionally restrained, The American is an unusually divisive spy thriller -- and one that rests on an unusually subdued performance from George Clooney. | 13 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 11688 Netizens Inside the character's mind. | 13 | |
Average .. 57% | 11 |