The Counselor is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy.
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13 Facts About The Counselor
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The Counselor was chosen as the closing film at the 2013 Morelia Film Festival and played the Cork Film Festival.
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The Counselor discusses an upcoming drug deal he is going in on with Reiner, which would be The Counselor's first.
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The Counselor meets with Westray, a business associate of Reiner's, to deliver his investment for the upcoming drug deal.
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The Counselor's asks the Counselor for help and he agrees to bail Ruth's son out for her as a favor.
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The Counselor makes an urgent call to Laura, arranging to meet her in another state, where he will explain the situation to her.
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Jefe darkly and mordantly advises the Counselor to resign himself to his fate that was created by the choices he made long beforehand.
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The Counselor explains that despite the Counselor's willingness to exchange his life for Laura's, it is too late.
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The Counselor's then has accomplices steal Westray's laptop, and he is killed with the "bolito" device that Reiner had previously described.
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The Counselor canceled that week's shoot in order to travel to Los Angeles to be with his brother's family.
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The Counselor grossed $17 million in the United States and Canada, and $54 million in other territories, for a total of $71 million, against a production budget of $25 million.
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Scott Foundas, critic for Variety, wrote a defense of the film titled "Why The Counselor Is One of Ridley Scott's Best Films" in which he compared it to John Boorman's Point Blank and the screenplay to the work of David Mamet, Harold Pinter, and Quentin Tarantino.
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