Cleaner (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Renny Harlin |
| Written by | Matthew Aldrich |
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| Cinematography | Scott Kevan |
| Edited by | Brian Berdan |
| Music by | Richard Gibbs |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5.8 million[1] |
Cleaner is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Renny Harlin. It stars Samuel L. Jackson as a crime scene cleaner who thinks he has become part of a cover-up; Ed Harris, Keke Palmer, and Eva Mendes also star. The film was released on May 27, 2007.
Plot
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he owns and operates a crime scene cleanup company, and performs many of the duties himself. Having cleaned a crime scene in a wealthy suburban residence, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence of a brutal shooting, and becomes entangled in a dirty criminal cover-up.
Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson as Tom Cutler
- Ed Harris as Eddie Lorenzo
- Keke Palmer as Rose Cutler
- Eva Mendes as Ann Norcut
- Luis Guzmán as Det. Jim Vargas
- Maggie Lawson as Cherie
- Jose Pablo Cantillo as Miguel
- Robert Forster as Arlo Grange
- Edrick Browne as Det. Darrin Harris
- Marc Macaulay as Vic
- Peter Franzén as Bronson
- Rosalind Rubin as Crying Woman
- Mike Guy as Priest #1
- Richard Folmer as Priest #2
- James Barnes as Lawyer
- Linda Leonard as Francine Mason
- Ritchie Montgomery as George Walton
- Patrick Kirton as Jeff Lang
- Peyton Wetzel as Hotel Manager
- Soundtrack composed by Richard Gibbs
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% based on reviews from 12 critics.[2] On Metacritic the film has a score of 49% based on reviews from 4 critics.[3]
Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter gave it a positive review and wrote: "A neatly contained crime whodunit with a nifty setup and an expert lead performance from Samuel L. Jackson."[4]
Eddie Cockrell of Variety wrote: "Scrub away a needlessly fussy visual style, trendy narrative tweaks and a climax both morally repugnant and logically absurd, and there's a tough little noir about buried transgressions coming out of the past in Renny Harlin's lackluster thriller “Cleaner.” Too mainstream to attract genre interest, and too tangled in its character motivations to sit well with the multiplex crowd, this is a minor stain that should fade quickly and leave only faint traces in ancillary."[5]
Home media
Cleaner was released on May 27, 2008 in the U.S. and opened at #5 and sold 75,312 DVD units, which gathered revenue of $1.5 million. It went on to sell 402,010 DVDs which translated to revenue of $7.8 million.[6]
References
- ^ https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0896798/?ref_=bo_tt_ti
- ^ "Cleaner (2008)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^ "Cleaner". Metacritic. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^ "Cleaner". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Cockrell, Eddie (13 September 2007). "Cleaner". Variety.
- ^ "Cleaner (2008) - Financial Information". The Numbers.