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The Accountant is a 2016 American thriller, drama, crime, and action film directed by Gavin O'Connor. The screenplay was written by Bill Dubuque, with Mark Isham composing the score and Seamus McGarvey serving as director of photography. The cast includes Ben Affleck, Jeffrey Tambor, Anna Kendrick, and Jon Bernthal. Production was handled by RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Zero Gravity Management, Electric City Entertainment, and RatPac Entertainment, while distribution was managed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix.
Filmed in Atlanta, the narrative takes place in Washington, D.C., Hanover, Plainfield, and Chicago. The film has a runtime of 128 minutes and was produced with a budget of 44,000,000. It earned 155,160,045 at the box office. The movie received an R rating and has a TMDb vote average of 7.135 based on 7,333 votes. On IMDb, it holds a rating of 7.3 from 397,427 votes, while Metacritic lists a score of 51/100 and Rotten Tomatoes shows a 53% rating. The film has received 3 wins and 5 nominations.
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Film · TMDB
7.1As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Cast
- Ben Affleck as Christian Wolff
- Anna Kendrick as Dana Cummings
- J.K. Simmons as Ray King
- Jon Bernthal as Brax
- Jeffrey Tambor as Francis Silverberg
- Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Marybeth Medina
Themes
- prison
- sniper
- assassin
- autism
- military service
- money
- treasury department
- sniper rifle
- gunfight
- loner
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
392,294 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
53%
Metacritic
51/100
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 wins & 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Gavin O'Connor
- Written by
- Bill Dubuque
- Produced by
- Lynette Howell Taylor Mark Williams
- Starring
- Ben Affleck Anna Kendrick J. K. Simmons Jon Bernthal Cynthia Addai-Robinson Jeffrey Tambor John Lithgow
- Cinematography
- Seamus McGarvey
- Edited by
- Richard Pearson
- Music by
- Mark Isham
- Production companies
- Electric City Entertainment Zero Gravity Management
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release dates
- October 10, 2016 ( 2016-10-10 ) ( TCL Chinese Theatre ) October 14, 2016 ( 2016-10-14 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 128 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $44 million
- Box office
- $155.2 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- mystery film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- The Accountant 2
- Main subject
- assassination
- Director
- Gavin O'Connor
- Screenwriter
- Bill Dubuque
- Cast member
- Andy Umberger
- Composer
- Mark Isham
- Production company
- RatPac-Dune Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Seamus McGarvey
- Narrative location
- Zurich
- Filming location
- Atlanta
- Duration
- 128
- FilmAffinity ID
- 579361
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.warnerbros.com/movies/accountant
Show 11 more facts
- publication date
- 2016-10-27
- title
- The Accountant
- distributed by
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- film editor
- Richard Pearson
- executive producer
- Gavin O'Connor
- capital cost
- 44000000
- box office
- 86260045
- different from
- The Accountant
- social media followers
- 6426
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 53%
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Encyclopedic overview
The Accountant is a 2016 American action thriller film written by Bill Dubuque, directed by Gavin O'Connor, and starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Jeffrey Tambor, and John Lithgow. The storyline follows Christian Wolff, an autistic certified public accountant who makes his living sanitizing fraudulent financial and accounting records of criminal and terrorist organizations around the world that are experiencing internal embezzlement.
The Accountant premiered in Los Angeles on October 10, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 14, 2016. Receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film grossed $155.2 million worldwide. It received praise for Affleck's performance and the action sequences featuring the Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat, although its portrayal of autism received a mixed response.
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