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The American

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Directed by Anton Corbijn
Produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Anne Carey, Jill Green, and Ann Wingate
Screenplay by Rowan Joffé Based on the novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth
With: George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Irina Björklund, Johan Leysen, Filippo Timi, and Björn Granath
Cinematography: Martin Ruhe
Editing: Andrew Hulme
Music: Herbert Grönemeyer
Runtime: 105 min
Release Date: 01 September 2010
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
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George Clooney plays an American assassin dispatched to a scenic rural Italian town in Anton Corbijn’s unimaginatively titled, stylishly inert, retro-Euro existential thriller.