Ryan Bingham (George Clooney, Intolerable Cruelty) is a professional hatchet man. He works for a company that performs the unpleasant task of letting employees go for employers unwilling to do it themselves. Bingham is a consummate professional whose complete disconnect from those around him and love of the road is so all-consuming that he gives lectures advocating following his example and leaving it all behind. The film brings us Ryan at a moment in which his smug world view is challenged by not one but two women.![]()
