Hello and welcome to the Michael Clayton episode of Slate Money Goes to the movies.

I have to say, I remembered not liking Michael Clayton when I first saw it,

but I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I'm here with Anna Schimanski.

Hello? And we are here with one of the world's biggest Michael Clayton stands, Mr. Peter Kafka of Fox Media.

Hello, I will accept that title.

Peter, do you remember the first time you saw Michael Clayton?

Was it in the theaters when it came out?

Yep.

It was in the Cobble Hill Theater off of Court Street, and I was by myself and feeling

a lot of anguish about the world, that that movie just tapped right into it.

And you came out feeling even more anguish about the world.

More anguish and also remarking on what a very good New York movie is.

We can get into that later.

It got me right away.

I love the idea of this is a New York movie.

So yeah, we're going to talk about Michael Clayton, the George Clooney vehicle from, when did it come out?

2007.

2007, just before he became a completely silver fox.

And some sparkling dialogue, some great direction, all of that coming up on Slate Money Goes to the Movies. Okay, Peter, we may as well start

with New York, the center of big law, all of these large anonymous law firms and I don't know.

Do you hang out with lawyers? Do you think there's any verisimilitude here?

Well, you know, I do think that if I knew more about the legal profession and big law, I might

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