The Counselor(Movie, 2013)

Name: The Counselor
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Released: 2013
Duration: T01:57:00
Rating: 2.6

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 57min | Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama

Rating: 2.6/5 (with 834 votes)

The Counselor (known as The Counsellor in countries that use British English) is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy. It stars Michael Fassbender as the eponymous Counselor as well as Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt. The film deals with themes such as greed, mortality, love, and trust in the context of the Mexican drug trade. The extremely violent and bloodthirsty activities of drug cartels are depicted as the Counselor, a high-level lawyer, gets involved in a drug deal around the troubled Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/Texas border area. The Counselor was chosen as the closing film at the 2013 Morelia Film Festival and also played the Cork Film Festival. The film was theatrically released on October 25, 2013 and is dedicat... ()

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Duration: 1h 57min

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Amazon Instant Video

Available languages: German
Duration: 1h 57min

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Duration: 1h 57min

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Also available at Amazon.de on: DVD Blu-ray

About The Counselor

A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

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Trailer for The Counselor + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer(Trailer, 2:39)

Trailer (Trailer) | Trailers From Hell (Featurette) | Trailer Deutsch (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production countries: United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Spain, London

Plays in: Texas

Made by: TSG Entertainment, Ingenious Media, Fox 2000 Pictures, Big Screen Productions, Scott Free Productions, Nick Wechsler Productions, Kanzaman, Chockstone Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)

Translated into 33 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Latin (LA), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Burmese (MY), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 11/28/2013 (World premiere: 10/25/2013)

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Bruno Ganz, Dean Norris, Édgar Ramírez, Emma Rigby, John Leguizamo, Natalie Dormer, Rosie Perez, Rubén Blades, Toby Kebbell, Velibor Topic, Goran Višnjić, Andrea Deck, Giannina Facio, Richard Cabral

Director: Ridley Scott

Producer: Nick Wechsler, Ridley Scott

Screenwriter: Cormac McCarthy

Executive Producer: Michael Costigan, Cormac McCarthy

Film Editor: Pietro Scalia

Director of Photography: Dariusz Wolski

Composer: Daniel Pemberton

Production Designer: Arthur Max

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Le conseiller"

"法律顾问"

"玩命法则"

"黑权大状"

"El Consejero"

"Cartel"

"The Counsellor"

"카운슬러"

Keywords: lawyer, poetry, drug trafficking, drug smuggling, snuff, red dress

Budget: 25,000,000 USD

Revenue: 71,009,334 USD (= 284%)

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The Counselor(Movie, 2013)

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Trailer(Trailer, 2:39)

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