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Every George Clooney Movie, Ranked
In many ways, Clooney is both the perfect movie star and a repudiation of what we think of as one.
Based on a play written by Beau Willimon (who, a year after this, would give us House of Cards), The Ides of March is a political thriller about a campaign manager (Ryan Gosling) trying to win the Democratic presidential nomination for a charming but untrustworthy politician (Clooney). The movie bombed over Thanksgiving weekend in 2002, probably because audiences weren’t in the mood for a slow-moving, sad-faced story about a widowed doctor (Clooney) who travels to a distant space station only to discover that his dead wife (Natascha McElhone) is inexplicably onboard. Essentially Clooney’s take on the stylish, ultracool, existential European thriller, The American finds the actor in the Jean-Pierre Melville role of an emotionally distant hit man, Jack, who goes into hiding and eventually falls in love with a dangerous beauty (Violante Placido).
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